Legal Opinion
United States v. Norton
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 28, 1878No. 522PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
97 U.S. 164
24 L.Ed. 907
UNITED STATES
v.
NORTON.
October Term, 1877
APPEAL from the Court of Claims.
This is a suit by Emory E. Norton, assignee in bankruptcy of Samuel DeBow & Co., to recover $3,206.66, paid by that firm to the treasury agent at New Orleans, Louisiana, June 13, 1865, under the eighth section of the act of July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. 375), and the regulations of the Treasury Department, on account of certain cotton shipped from Vicksburg, Miss., to New Orleans.
Said section enacts:——
'That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, to…
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