United States v. Eighty-Four Boxes of Sugar
Supreme Court of the United States
FROM the district court of the district of East Louisiana. In the port of New Orleans, eighty-four boxes of sugar, imported from Matanzas, were entered as brown sugar, and were seized by the officers of the customs for having been so entered, the same being alleged to be white sugar, and therefore forfeited' to the United States; a libel was filed against the whole importation, but afterwards a part of the cargo was released, and the proceedings in the libel were against the…
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FROM the district court of the district of East Louisiana. In the port of New Orleans, eighty-four boxes of sugar, imported from Matanzas, were entered as brown sugar, and were seized by the officers of the customs for having been so entered, the same being alleged to be white sugar, and therefore forfeited' to the United States; a libel was filed against the whole importation, but afterwards a part of the cargo was released, and the proceedings in the libel were against the remaining eighty-four boxes. The whole parcel had consisted of one hundred and fifty-five boxes, of which seventy-one…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M’Lean
This case is brought before the court, by an application for a mandamus to be directed to the judge of the court of the. United States for the district of Louisiana, requiring him to allow an appeal from the judgment of that court..
In their petition the claimants state, that the eighty-four boxes of sugar wore consigned to them at New Orleans, and that on their arrival, they were libelled by the United States for an alleged breach of the revenue laws ; that the sugars were valued by the two custom house appraisers at two thousand six hundred and two dollars fifty-one cents; that they were…
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