Cantzler v. Gordon
Supreme Court of Louisiana
The petition sets forth that on or about the 16th day of November, 1833, the plaintiffs imported into this district in the brig Vigilant, two hundred and seventy-five bundles of bolt iron, hammered or forged, weighing thirty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-three pounds, which they duly entered at the custom house, securing the duties by á bond, of which the amount was as usual left blank.
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The petition sets forth that on or about the 16th day of November, 1833, the plaintiffs imported into this district in the brig Vigilant, two hundred and seventy-five bundles of bolt iron, hammered or forged, weighing thirty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-three pounds, which they duly entered at the custom house, securing the duties by á bond, of which the amount was as usual left blank. The defendant, collector of the port of New-Orleans, caused this blank to be filled with the sum of seven hundred eight dollars and sixty-two cents, as the amount of duties, and deposited the bond for…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff’s state they imported a quantity of iron, and for the purpose of obtaining a permit for landing the same, subscribed a blank, according to the usage of the custom house, and the defendant, who is collector of the revenue, filled the blank left for the insertion of the amount of the duties, for a larger sum than that which was by law chargeable therefor, and the bond being lodged for collection in. the branch bank of the United States; the defendants, in order to avoid the inconvenience of losing for a while the facility of bonding future duties, took up their bonds, after having…
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