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Title: Bevans, Receiver v. United States
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1871
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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Mr. A. H. Garland, for the plaintiff in error, on the first point went into an able and learned argument, citing various adjudged cases, to show that where the condition of a bond became impossible to be performed by great overpowering force and fear, then the obligation was saved. On the second point he submitted that the direction of the court to the jury, unqualified as it was, took out of their hands all that there was for them to do, and was thus erroneous; that the instruction should have been, 'if the jury believe,' &c.