W. C. Peacock & Co. v. Republic of Hawaii

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, J.

This ig assumpsit for $1383.17, alleged to bave been paid under protest as customs duties iu excess of tbe legal rate upon liquor drawn from bond on various dates from February 11, *4051893, to January 8, 1894. The alleged excess is the difference between the rate under the law previously in force and the higher rate under the law (approved January 9, 1893) then in force according to its terms, but claimed by plaintiffs not to have been in force until one year after the first public notification thereof, in view of the provisions of Article .VII. of the Danish…