Lawrence v. Allen
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from .the Circuit. Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from .the Circuit. Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. It was an action of assumpsit, commenced by- Allen and Paxton, the'defendants in error, in the Supreme Court of .the State of New York, for the purpose of recovering hack from the plaintiff,in error, collector of customs,for the port .of New' York, certain moneys exacted by him, as collector, for duties upon, a quantity of common India-rubber shoes, imported into the port of New York in September, 1845, by the defendants in error, from Para, in Brazil. ■ Under the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
delivered, the. opinion of the court.
This was a writ of error to reverse a judgment in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. That judgment was rendered in favor of Allen et al., the original plaintiffs, in a suit to recover back the. amount of duties which Lawrence, the defendant, as collector of the port of New York, had demanded and received on the importation of certain boxes of India-rubber shoes, in September, A. D. 1845, and which the importers claimed to be by law free. The duties were,, therefore, paid under protest; and at the trial, the court, among other things,…
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