Gove v. Breedlove

This action is brought to recover the value of seventy-two barrels of Malaga wine, which the plaintiff alleges *79that the defendant, as the collector of the port of New Orleans, detains from him, and also the sum of $167 50, which he owes him for duty on salt, that was entered subject to draw-back, which sum the defendant refuses to pay, although directed to do so by the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the question was presented for decision. His whole demand amounts to $743 50. The defendant excepts to the action being now maintained against him, in relation to the duty on the salt,…