Brown v. United States

The claimants prosecute this suit to recover from the United States the sum of one thousand and thirty-five dollars and forty cents. This claim is based upon an alleged overcharge of duties upon certain linens imported by them into the port of Baltimore, between the years 1852 and 1858, parts of both inclusive. The goods were consigned to them by parties in Ireland, accompanied by invoices fixing the wholesale prices, and from the aggregate amount showing a deduction of five per centum for cash payments. In the entry of the goods at the custom-house this five per centum was at first deducted…