Lapham v. Almy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Action against the collector of customs of Fall River, containing a count in contract and one in tort, to recover an informer’s share of certain money received by the defendant. Upon facts which are stated in the opinion, Ames, J. directed a verdict for the defendant, in the superior court, and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Gray, J.*
The material facts which the plaintiff offered to prove at the trial in the superior court, and upon which the presiding judge ordered a verdict for the defendant, were as follows: Upon the arrival of the schooner Charles W. Bentley at Fall River from a foreign port, part of her cargo was landed at midnight under the orders and in the presence of her principal owner, without the payment of duties and in evasion of the revenue laws of the United States. The plaintiff informed the defendant thereof, who as collector of customs of the port of Fall River caused a libel to be filed by the…
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