HEDDEN v. ROBERTSON.

No. 212.

151 U.S. 520 (1894)

HEDDEN v. ROBERTSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 5, 1894.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Whitney for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edwin B. Smith for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action brought by William Robertson, the defendant in error, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, to recover from the plaintiff in error, Edward L. Hedden, collector of customs at the port of New York, the sum of $1016.34, alleged to have been illegally exacted in excess of lawful duties on a number of importations of cotton cloths brought into the port of New...

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