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Item Description:At head of title: "Supreme Court of the United States. October term, 1890. Number 9, original."
V. 3 Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1891.
Volumes 1-2 have general title page and table of contents. Petition for a writ of prohibition to the District court of the United States for the district of Alaska, to restrain the enforcement of a sentence of forfeiture against the schooner W.P. Sayward, condemned for having been used in killing fur seal in Behring sea; Joseph H. Choate and Calderon Carlisle, counsel for petitioner.
Volumes 1-2 contain petitions, briefs, transcript of record and opinions, motions, minutes and orders of the court in the case on appeal; volume 3, number 2, Stenographic report of oral arguments of counsel, in the W.P. Sayward case; volume 3, number 3, [Decision of the court in the W.P. Sayward case]
Volume 3, number 1, contains brief for appellant, the Sylvia Handy, in a similar case of the United States vs. the American schooner Sylvia Handy and her owners, L.N. Handy and Co.; volume 3. number 3, pages 33-36 contain decision of the court in that case.
Reproduction of the original from Yale Law Library.
Physical Description:3 volumes.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.