Seeberger v. Farwell

This is an action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, in August, 1888, by John Y. Farwell and others, copartners as John Y. Farwell & Co., against Anthony F. Seeberger, collector of customs for the port and district of Chicago, to recover an alleged excess of duties, paid under protest, in that month, on a quantity of imported women’s and children’s dress goods, which were dutiable under the provision of Schedule K of section 2502 -of the Devised Statutes, as enacted by section 6 of the act of March 3, 1883, c. 121, which provided…