Curtis v. Martin
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York..
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York.. It was an action brought in the court below by Martin and Coe against Curtis, the collector, for return of - duties upon certain importations of gunny cloth, from Dundee, in Scotland, from April to September, 1841. The facts in the case are clearly stated in the following brief of Mr. Nelson, attorney-general, who argued the case on behalf of Curtis, the plaintiff in error:— ■ . This was an action brought by the defendants in error against Curtis,. as collector of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
delivered the opinion of the court.. This case, comes before the court upon a writ 'pf error directed to the Circuit Court for the sotitheril- district of New York. The action was brought by the defendants in error against the plaintiff, who was the collector of the port of New York, to recover back $4500, which had been paid,'under protest, as duties upon, certain goods imported into the port of New York, in April, 1841. The goods in question .were-gunny cloths, and were charged by the collector as cotton bagging. . ' .
The defendants in error offered evidence to show that, in 1832, when the…
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