Swartwout v. Gihon

This case comes before the court upon a writ of érror directed to the Circuit Court for the southern district of New York. _ The action was brought by the defendants ijx error against the plaintiff to recover back certain sums of money paid to him as duties on brown linens, imported into New York in 1.836, of which port he was at that time the collector. Some of these duties were paid under protest in writing, and some without any written protest or notice, but evidence was offered for the purpose of (showing thalthe defendants in error verbally -notifie_d the collector- that the duties…