200 CHESTS OF TEA


22 U.S. 430 (1824)

9 Wheat. 430

TWO HUNDRED CHESTS OF TEA, SMITH, Claimant.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 15, 1824.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Webster and Mr. D.B. Ogden, for the appellant, and by Mr. Blake, for the respondents.


Mr. Justice STORY delivered the opinion of the Court.

The two hundred chests of tea in controversy in this suit, were imported into the city of New-York, in the ship Ontario, from China, and entered there at the custom house, and the duties regularly secured as bohea teas. They were afterwards transported coastwise to Boston; and upon examination there, under the direction of the collector of the district, they were seized...

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