Roger B. Taney

“ The decree of the district court must therefore be reversed, and a mandate issued to the court below to dismiss the petition.
This cause came on to be heard, on the transcript of the record, from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana; and it appearing to the court that this case cannot be distinguished from the case of the United States v. King et al. 7 How. 833, and of the United States v. Turner's Heirs, 11 How. ”