Wright v. Blakeslee
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This is an action brought by B. Huntington Wright, the plaintiff in error, against Blakeslee, the defendant, formerly collector of internal revenue for the twenty-first revenue district of New York', to recover the amount of a succession .tax collected from the plaintiff and his sister in 1867, the latter having assigned her interest to the plaintiff.
A jury was waived, and the cause was tried by the court. From the findings the following facts appear: Henry Huntington, of Oneida County, New York, died in October, 1846, leaving a will, by which, amongst other things, he devised to his…
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