Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.
This cause comes before us upon a certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the circuit court of the United States for the 5th circuit and southern district of Alabama.
The evidence before the circuit court on which the division in opinion arose was of the following character: —
The defendant, on the 9th day of September, 1850, at Mobile, in the names of James Reid and Co...
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