The United States, in Error v. Horace Southmayd and Stephen C. Southmayd

50 U.S. 637

9 How. 637

13 L.Ed. 290

THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR,

v.

HORACE SOUTHMAYD AND STEPHEN C. SOUTHMAYD.

January Term, 1850

1

THIS case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

2

It involved the same question as the preceding case of Marriott v. Brune, viz. whether, in calculating the duties upon an importation of sugar, allowance should be made for leakage and drainage, with the additional fact in evidence, that the purchaser abroad takes into consideration the probable loss in fixing the price to be paid.

3

Ther…