Cruickshank v. Bidwell
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York dismissing, on demurrer, a bill in equity brought by Cruickshaük and others, copartners doing business in the city of New York, against George E. Bid well, collector of customs for the port of New York The bill averred that complainants were engaged in importing teas from…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York dismissing, on demurrer, a bill in equity brought by Cruickshaük and others, copartners doing business in the city of New York, against George E. Bid well, collector of customs for the port of New York The bill averred that complainants were engaged in importing teas from Japan into the United States; that during the month of November, 1897, they imported into the United States and entered at…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Complainants sought by this bill to enjoin an officer of the United States from the discharge of duties expressly imposed upon him by an act of Congress oh the ground of its uncon-' stitutionality. We are clear that its averments did not justify such an interference with executive action.
In' Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad Company, 147 U. S. 165, the jurisdiction was sustained, but the Government raised no point as to the form of the remedy, and deprivation of a vested legal right of property, acquired before any suggestion that it could be taken awfiy, was there threatened. And it…
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