Whitney v. Robertson
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was an action to recover back duties alleged to have been illegally exacted. Yerdict for the defendant and judgment on the verdict. The plaintiffs sued out this writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The plaintiffs are merchants, doing business in the city of New York, and in August, 1882, they imported a large quan tity of “centrifugal and molasses sugars,”1 the produce and manufacture of the island of San Domingo. These goods were similar in kind to sugars produced in the Hawaiian Islands, which are admitted free of duty under the treaty with the king of those islands, and the act of Congress, passed to carry the treaty into effect. They were duly entered at the custom house at 'the port of New York, the plaintiffs, claiming that by the treaty with the Eepublic of San Domingo the goods…
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