Sang Lung v. Jackson

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

This is an action in equity brought by a great number of resident aliens, subjects of the Empire of China, against John P. Jackson, as collector of customs at the port of San Francisco, in which the court is asked to enjoin the defendant from proceeding to destroy a large quantity of tea imported by the complainants. The bill of complaint alleges that during the months of May, June, and July, in the year 1897, the complainants imported into the United States from China, and entered at the custom house at the port of San Francisco, 2,910 packages of lea, commercially…