Robertson v. Glendenning
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was an action to recover duties alleged' to have been illegally exacted. Judgment for plaintiff, to which defendant sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
This is an action brought to recover an alleged excess of duties exacted by the collector at the port of New York. Defendants in error had imported certain embroidered linen handkerchiefs, upon which the collector, the plaintiff in error, assessed a duty of ’thirty-five per cent ad valorem, under the eighth paragraph of Schedule J of § 2502 of title 33 of the Revised Statutes, as enacted by § 6 of the act of March 3d, 1883, 22 Stat. 488. 507, which reads:
“Brown and bleached linens, ducks, canvas, paddings, cot bottoms, diapers, crash, huckabacks, handkerchiefs, lawns or other manufactures of…
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