Cotzhausen v. Nazro

This was a suit commenced before a justice of- the peace by Cotzhausen against Nazro and Payne, for seizing and converting to their own use a flexible woollen scarf or shawl of the value of four dollars. It was removed into the Circuit Court of the United States by a writ of certiorari, on the ground that Nazro was collector of customs of the ¡United States for the port of Milwaukee, and that what was done in seizing the shawl was in performance of his duty'as such collector. .

On the trial in. that court it appeared that the article in question came in a closed or sealed envelope by foreign…