PEARCY v. STRANAHAN

No. 1.

205 U.S. 257 (1907)

PEARCY v. STRANAHAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 8, 1907.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James C. Lenney for plaintiff in error.

The Attorney General, The Solicitor General and Mr. Otis J. Carlton, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, for defendant in error, submitted.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff brought his action in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York against the then collector of the port of New York to recover the value of certain cigars seized by him, which had been brought to that port from the Isle of Pines, where they had been produced and manufactured. This seizure was made under the Dingley Act...

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