Davis v. Garland

This was a special action upon the case, in which the plaintiff, in his declaration, complained, that whereas the House of Representatives of the United States, at the 1st session of the 25th Congress had passed a resolution that their clerk be directed to cause to be printed, a ninth volume of the laws of the United States, after the manner of the 8th volume thereof, in pursuance of which resolution, the then clerk, one Walter S. Franklin, in the year 1838, had, in his…