Edye v. Robertson
Supreme Court of the United States
IN. ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. ^ ' IN-ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
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IN. ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. ^ ' IN-ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. These suits were brought to recover back sums collected at various times as duties ou immigrants arriving in the United States, under the provision of the act of August 3, 1882, 23 ■Stat. 214, “ that there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of fifty cents for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States, who shall come by steam or sail vessel from a foreign port to any port within the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
These cases all involve the same questions of law, and have been argued before this court together.
The case at the head of the list presents all the facts, in the form of an agreed statement signed by counsel, and it therefore brings the questions before us very fully. The other two were decided by the Circuit Court on demurrer to the declaration.
They will be disposed of here in one opinion, which will-have reference to the case as made by the record in Edye & Another v. Robertson.
The suit is brought to recover from Robertson the sum of money received by him, as collector of the port of New…
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