Jones v. Van Benthuysen
Supreme Court of the United States
Ebbob to the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Louisiana. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mikleb
Sidney A. Stockdale, late collector of internal revenue at New Orleans, was sued by Van Benthuysen to recover a tax illegally exacted of him. The case was tried by a jury, and a verdict and judgment rendered for the plaintiff below. Stock-dale died pending the suit, and this writ is prosecuted by his executrix.
The facts of the case, as presented to the jury, are embodied in a short bill of exceptions, from which it appears that the plaintiff was a commission merchant, whose business was the sale of manufactured tobacco for others; that he stood charged on- the books of the assessor of that…
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