Case ID: brayt_1/html/0230-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 3.
    STEEL ET AL. against FISK ET AL.
    
      Orange,
    
    1816.
    IN an action for breaking and entering a store, and carryr ing away goods, the defendant pleaded he was inspector of the customs ; and, as such, he seized the goods, and the same were condemned in the District Court.
    2. As to the breaking and entering the store, he was inspector, &c. and obtained a warrant from a Justice of the Peace, to him directed, as inspector, describing the goods as follows, yiz : “several bales of dry goods, calicoes, chintzes, &c. and ether goods, wares, and merchandize to which plaintiffs demurred.
   Decided by the Court. That the inspector was a seizing officer ; that the warrant was well directed to him as inspector ; that the description in the warrant was sufficiently particular, and that the pleas in bar were sufficient..