Salmon P. Chase

“ In proceeding to render a personal judgment against the defendants, for the value of the cotton, as found by it, the District Court erred.
Without adverting to the principles settled in the cases of the Union Insurance Company v. United States and Armstrong's Foundry, we are clearly of opinion-first, that the information, at most, presents only a case of the unlawful conversion of property to the use of the appellants, and that for redress of such an injury this proceeding by information cannot be sustained ”