Durant v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case : Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. Charles Wrigbt Durant and Charles Wright Durant, jr., tbe original petitioners and claimants herein, were, at all tbe times mentioned in tbe petition, to wit, from tbe 26th day of March, 1875, to tbe 15tb day of July, 1876, copartners in trade, carrying on business as sugar refiners in tbe city of New York, under tbe firm name and style of C. W. Durant & Son. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case : Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. Charles Wrigbt Durant and Charles Wright Durant, jr., tbe original petitioners and claimants herein, were, at all tbe times mentioned in tbe petition, to wit, from tbe 26th day of March, 1875, to tbe 15tb day of July, 1876, copartners in trade, carrying on business as sugar refiners in tbe city of New York, under tbe firm name and style of C. W. Durant & Son. II. At all tbe times mentioned in tbe petition, to wit, from tbe 20th day of March, 1875, to tbe 15th day of July, 1876, one William…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldon, J.
The plaintiff as surviving partner of the firm of Charles Wright Durant and Charles Wright Durant, jr., seeks to recover from the defendants certain alleged drawbacks due said firm upon the shipment of sugar in the year 1875 .from the city of New York to the Dominion of Canada. ' The facts show that during that year the firm were engaged in the business of refining sugar in the city of New York, and during said time shipped, from the 9th day of November to the 25th day of November, inclusive, 3,500 hogsheads of refined sugar, amounting in the aggregate to 1,080,326 pounds. The sugar exported…
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