Campbell v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement .of the case: In the month of December, 1870, the claimants purchased, at the city of New York, from importers, a large quantity of linseed which had been imported in that month from Calcutta, India, and at the time was on board the vessels on which it had been imported, from which, after the payment of the duties thereon due to the United States, the said linseed was removed from the vessels to the warehouses of the claimants, whence it was taken to…
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The Reporters' statement .of the case: In the month of December, 1870, the claimants purchased, at the city of New York, from importers, a large quantity of linseed which had been imported in that month from Calcutta, India, and at the time was on board the vessels on which it had been imported, from which, after the payment of the duties thereon due to the United States, the said linseed was removed from the vessels to the warehouses of the claimants, whence it was taken to their factory, where it was, without intermixture with any other linseed, manufactured into linseed-oil and…
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
Upon the foregoing facts the question arises whether this court has jurisdiction of this action.
The claimants rely, as sustaining our jurisdiction of their claim,.upon the following cases decided by this court: Patton’s Case, (7 C. Cls. R., 362;) Daily’s Case, (id., 383;) Broulatour’s Case, (id., 555;) and Kaufman’s Case, (11 id., 659.) We do not regard those cases as having that effect. All of them arose under the revenue laws, but they were of an entirely different character from this.
In Patton’s Case, the question was as to the authority of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Patton v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1871
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