Legal Opinion
200 Chests of Tea
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 15, 1824PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
22 U.S. 430 (1824)
9 Wheat. 430
TWO HUNDRED CHESTS OF TEA, SMITH, Claimant.
Supreme Court of United States.
March 9, 1824.
March 15, 1824.
The cause was argued by Mr. Webster and Mr. D.B. Ogden, for the appellant, and by Mr. Blake, for the respondents.
2Opinion of the Court · StoryJustice Story
The two hundred chests of tea in controversy in this suit, were imported into the city of New-York, in the ship Ontario, from China, and entered there at the custom house, and the duties regularly secured as bohea teas. They were afterwards transported coastwise to Boston; and upon examination there, under the direction of the collector of the…
3Cited by52 opinions
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