Binns v. Lawrence
Supreme Court of the United States
This cause was brought up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, on a certificate of division' in opinion between the judges thereof. It was an action brought up by the plaintiffs against the Collector of New York for the return of certain duties, paid under-protest, and charged to have been illegally exacted upon the importation of glass tumblers.
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This cause was brought up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, on a certificate of division' in opinion between the judges thereof. It was an action brought up by the plaintiffs against the Collector of New York for the return of certain duties, paid under-protest, and charged to have been illegally exacted upon the importation of glass tumblers. The tariff of 3d August, 1846, (9 Stat. at Large, pp. 44 45, chap. 74,) enacted duties on glass, as follows, viz.: “ Schedule B. Forty per centum ad valorem. “ Glass cue “ Schedule C. Thirty per centum ad…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, importers of glassware, against the defendant as collector of - the port of New York, to recover a certain • amount of money-paid under protest to the defendant as collector, for duties exacted by him upon glass tumblers imported by the plaintiffs at. the period Set forth in an exhibit filed in the cause, by which are also shown, the duties charged by and paid to the defendant, and the amount claimed by the plaintiffs, as having been improperly exacted; this last amount, consisting in each instance of the. difference between the duty of 40 per…
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