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GREELY'S ADMINISTRATOR v. BURGESS ET AL.

59 U.S. 413 (1855)

18 How. 413

JAMES C. CONVERSE, ADMINISTRATOR OF PHILIP GREELY, DECEASED, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. BENJAMIN BURGESS, NATHAN B. GIBBS, AND BENJAMIN T. BURGESS, COPARTNERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF BENJAMIN BURGESS AND SON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was submitted, on printed arguments, by Mr. Cushing, (attorney-general,) for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Andros, for the defendants.

Mr. Justice CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court.

The intestate of the plaintiff is charged in this judgment for an excess of duties collected by him in his capacity of collector of customs at the port of Boston, under color of a law of the United States.

The defendants in April, 1850, imported into Boston an invoice of sugars from the Island of Cuba, and made entry as in case of goods purchased, by the production of the invoice and an oath that it...

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