HENDERSON'S DISTILLED SPIRITS


81 U.S. 44 (1871)

14 Wall. 44

HENDERSON'S DISTILLED SPIRITS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. B.H. Bristow, Solicitor-General, and Mr. C.H. Hill, Assistant Attorney-General, for the United States, plaintiffs in error.

Mr. J.A. Garfield, contra.


Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

Distilled spirits, upon which no tax had been paid according to law, were, by the thirty-second section of the act of the thirteenth of July, 1866, subject to a tax of two dollars on each and every proof gallon, to be paid by the distiller, owner, or any person having possession thereof, and the same section provided that the tax shall be a lien on the spirits distilled...

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