Gant v. Peaslee

CURTIS, Circuit Justice.

This is an action for money had and received, to recover of the collector of the port of Boston, money alleged to have been illegally exacted, in payment of duties on merchandise imported into that port by the plaintiff. The evidence showed that a parcel of figs, admitted to be the produce of Turkey, were shipped at Smyrna by the plaintiff, on board a steamer called the Melita, under a bill of lading, which made them deliverable in Boston. The Melita belonged to the British and North American Mail Steamship Company, and was one of a line plying between Liverpool and…