Curtis's Administratrix v. Fiedler
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of United States for the Southern District of New York. Ernest Fiedler, a merchant of New York, in September, 1842, imported into the port of New York, from St. Petersburgh, Russia, in the ship “ Nicholas Savin,” a quantity of unmanufactured hemp. He also imported at the same time, by the same vessel, a quantity of iron in bars.
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Error to the Circuit Court of United States for the Southern District of New York. Ernest Fiedler, a merchant of New York, in September, 1842, imported into the port of New York, from St. Petersburgh, Russia, in the ship “ Nicholas Savin,” a quantity of unmanufactured hemp. He also imported at the same time, by the same vessel, a quantity of iron in bars. The Tariff Act of August 30, 1842, which was in operation at the time of the importation, contained the following provision in respect to the duty to be levied on hemp: “ On manufactured hemp forty dollars per ton; on manilla, sunn, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. According to the transcript, the suit was commenced by the present defendant against Edward" Curtis, in the Superior Court of the^City of New York, to recover back an alleged excess of duties paid by the plaintiff upon certain goods and merchandize imported into the Port of New York during the period that the defendant in the Court below was the Collector of the Customs of that port Date of the writ does not appear, nor is it of any importance in this investigation, as the record of the…
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