Hahn v. Erhardt

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to recover duties alleged to have been illegally exacted by the defendant, as collector of the port of New York, upon certain importations made by the plaintiff in the year 1889, consisting of cane heads, paper cutters, glove-hoolc handles, paper weights, etc., composed, some of rock crystal, seme of agate, and others of onyx. The articles were classified by the collector and subjected to duty under that provision of the tariff act of March 3, 1883, prescribing that there should be levied, collected, and paid on the importation of “all articles…