EP Calkin & Co. v. Cocke
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals for the State of Texas, under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. Calkin and Company were merchants of the counxy oi Galveston, Texas, and Cocke was collector of Galveston under the Republic of -Texas.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals for the State of Texas, under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. Calkin and Company were merchants of the counxy oi Galveston, Texas, and Cocke was collector of Galveston under the Republic of -Texas. By a joint resolution of Congress, approved on the 1st of March, 1845; the President of the United States was .authorized to submit one of two alternative propositions to • the Republic of Texas, as an overture for her admission as a State into the Union. One of these contemplated the completion of this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. The suit was 'originally brought by the plaintiffs in error before the District Court of Galveston county, to recover the possession of a stock of goods from the defendant, who had seized them at Galveston, as collector of thát port, under the. authority of the Republic of Texas, for non-payment of duties They recovered a judgment in that court; but, on a writ of error from the Supreme Court, the judgment was reversed, and the goods held liable to the duties.
The case was this: The plaintiffs shipped from New Orleans into…
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