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LAWRENCE v. ALLEN ET AL.

48 U.S. 785 (1849)

7 How. 785

CORNELIUS W. LAWRENCE, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. GILBERT ALLEN AND SAMUEL C. PAXTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was very elaborately argued in print by Mr. Butler and Mr. Toucey, (Attorney-General,) for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. J. Prescott Hall and Mr. Curtis, for the defendants in error.

Mr. Justice WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a writ of error to reverse a judgment in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. That judgment was rendered in favor of Allen et al., the original plaintiffs, in a suit to recover back the amount of duties which Lawrence, the defendant, as collector of the port of New York, had demanded and received on the importation of certain boxes of India-rubber shoes, in September, A.D. 1845,...

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