MEYERHEIM v. ROBERTSON

No. 279.

144 U.S. 601 (1892)

MEYERHEIM v. ROBERTSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 18, 1892.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edwin B. Smith (with whom were Mr. William Stanley and Mr. Stephen J. Clarke on the brief) for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Parker for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action at law, brought in the Superior Court of the city of New York, in November, 1882, by Siegmund Meyerheim, William Kempner and Henry Strahlheim, against William H. Robertson, late collector of the port of New York, and removed by the defendant into the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, to recover $764.50, as an alleged excess of duties exacted on the...

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