Ellsworth v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the ease: Tke following are the facts as found by the court: I. The claimant was collector of customs at the port of Suspension Bridge, N. Y., from March 5, 1870, to January 25, 1878. II. There are located at Suspension Bridge two freight depots of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Com-jfany.
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The Reporters' statement of the ease: Tke following are the facts as found by the court: I. The claimant was collector of customs at the port of Suspension Bridge, N. Y., from March 5, 1870, to January 25, 1878. II. There are located at Suspension Bridge two freight depots of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Com-jfany. Said depots were entirely inclosed with lochs and fastenings upon all the doors and were fitted with interior compartments doubly secured by United States customs lochs. In order to gain access to any of these apartments the locks of the railroad company and of…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
The claimant held the office and performed the duties of collector at the port of Suspension Bridge, N. Y., from March 5, 1870, to January 25,1878. His petition asks for judgment for the sum of $14,535.23. This sum is claimed as compensation for his official services due to him under the acts of Congress regulating such compensation. He alleges that section 5 of the act of March 3,1841, provides that “ every collector of customs * * * shall render a quarter-yearly account under oath to the Secretary of the Treasury *' * * of all sums of money * ' * * received or collected for rent and storage…
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