Teal v. Felton
Supreme Court of the United States
This cast was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of New York, by a writ of error, issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act.
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This cast was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of New York, by a writ of error, issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. Teal, the plaintiff in error, was postmaster in Syracuse, in the State of New York, and the case arose in the following manner: The 13th section of the act of 1825 (4 Stat. at Large 105,) provided as follows: “ Any memorandum which shall be written on a newspaper, or other printed paper, pamphlet, or magazine, and transmitted- by mail, shall be charged with letter-postage.” And the 30th section of the same act (4 Stat. at Large, 111) provided as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
delivered the opinion of the court.. This suit was brought in a justices’ court to recover from the plaintiff in error the value of a newspaper, received by him as postmaster at Syracuse, which he refused to deliver to the defendant in error to whom it was addressed. The plaintiff in error had charged the newspaper with letter-postage, on account of a letter or initial upon the wráppér of it, distinct from the-direction. This the defendant refused to pay, at the same time tendering the. lawful postage of a newspaper. The postmaster would not receive it, and retained the paper against the will…
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