Six Hundred & Fifty-One Chests of Tea v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Error to tlie district court of the United States for the Southern district of New-York. This was an information, under the 43d section of the collection law, against 651 chests hyson skin tea. for being found unaccompanied with the marks and certificates required by law. At the trial in the court below, the .iury found a special verdict, upon which judgment of condemnation was entered [case unreported], and a writ of error brought for its reversal.
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Error to tlie district court of the United States for the Southern district of New-York. This was an information, under the 43d section of the collection law, against 651 chests hyson skin tea. for being found unaccompanied with the marks and certificates required by law. At the trial in the court below, the .iury found a special verdict, upon which judgment of condemnation was entered [case unreported], and a writ of error brought for its reversal. The information alleged, that the teas in question were, on the 1st day of July, 1825, imported from China, in the ship Benjamin Kush, at…
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Justice.
This case comes up on a writ of error to the district court of the Southern district of New-York. The seizure of the teas having been made upon land, the information was filed in that court, as a court of common law. and the cause tried by a jury, and a special verdict found, which ascertains and settles all matters of fact in the cause.
The information sets out that the teas were imported into the United States in July. 1825, from Canton, in the ship Benjamin Rush, and were subject to the payment of duties; and then alleges the following grounds upon which the…
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