Hadden v. Hoyt

11 F. Cas. 147, 2 Hunt Mer. Mag. 343

Opinion

THE COURT

(BETTS, District Judge)

expressed doubt upon the question; and with the assent of the parties pro forma, charged that the jury were to be governed by the usual and well-known name of the article, and meaning of the words of the law, as understood generally in commerce at the date of the act.

A verdict was rendered for $2.400, and the cause was carried up. by a ’writ of error, to the supreme court of the United States. [Case unreported.]