MERRITT v. WELSH


104 U.S. 694 (____)

MERRITT v. WELSH.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor-General for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. William M. Evarts, Mr. Stephen G. Clarke, and Mr. Edwin B. Smith, contra.


MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action brought by S. & W. Welsh, the plaintiffs below, to recover back duties alleged by them to have been illegally exacted by Merritt, the defendant below, as collector of the port of New York, on certain sugars imported by them. The importations were made in 1879, and were subject to the duties imposed by schedule G, sect. 2504, of the Revised Statutes, and by the third section of the act of...

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