Isaacs v. Jonas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED .STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was an action brought December 17, 1885, by Isaacs against the collector of the port of New Orleans, to recover back an alleged excess of duties paid, under protest, upon twenty-five cases of cigarette paper, and upon twenty-three cases of pasteboard covers for cigarette paper, both imported by the plaintiff in June, 1885; the paper at the port of New Orleans, and the covers at the…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED .STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was an action brought December 17, 1885, by Isaacs against the collector of the port of New Orleans, to recover back an alleged excess of duties paid, under protest, upon twenty-five cases of cigarette paper, and upon twenty-three cases of pasteboard covers for cigarette paper, both imported by the plaintiff in June, 1885; the paper at the port of New Orleans, and the covers at the port of New York and thence transferred in bond to New Orleans; and the two entered by the plaintiff simultaneously at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
Had there been any question in this case necessary for the consideration and decision of a jury, the plaintiff would have no just ground of exception to the admission of the testimony of an habitual cigarette smoker, accustomed to roll his own cigarettes, that other cigarette paper, sold in similar packages but without covers, could be used by smokers in that condition, and that the pieces of paper now in question could be so used • without being pasted together or into a cover; or to the instructions under which the case was submitted to the jury.
But the several exceptions taken become…
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