Case Name: STEEL ET AL. against FISK ET AL.
Court: Vermont Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Vermont
Decision Date: 1816
Citations: 1 Brayt. 230
Docket Number: No. 3
Parties: STEEL ET AL. against FISK ET AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: Brayton
Volume: 1
Pages: 230–231

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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..