Hudson Iron Co. v. . Alger
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial district, in favor of defendant, entered upon a case submitted under section 872 of the Code. This action was brought under the revenue act of 1864, to recover duties imposed by section 94 of said act, upon a quantity of pig-iron alleged to have been contracted to defendant before the passage of the act, and to have been delivered thereafter.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial district, in favor of defendant, entered upon a case submitted under section 872 of the Code. This action was brought under the revenue act of 1864, to recover duties imposed by section 94 of said act, upon a quantity of pig-iron alleged to have been contracted to defendant before the passage of the act, and to have been delivered thereafter. The facts presented by the case appear sufficiently in the opinion..
1Opinion of the Court
Earl, C.
The following are the material facts agreed on: On the 31st day of December, 1863, the parties entered into an agreement by which, among other things, Mr. Alger agreed to sell and deliver 36,667 tons of iron ore, between April 1,1864, and December 1,1867, to the Hudson Iron Company, for which it agreed to pay him in pig-iron, at the rate of one ton of pig-iron for every eight tons of ore delivered.
On the 30th of June, 1864, Congress passed an act by which, among other things, it was provided that upon pig-iron which should be produced and sold or manufactured, or made and sold, or…
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