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SMITH v. FIELD

105 U.S. 52 (____)

SMITH v. FIELD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by The Solicitor-General for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Edward S. Isham, Mr. E.B. Smith, and Mr. John H. Thompson for the defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1878 the defendant in the court below was collector of customs for the port of Chicago, and this action is brought to recover from him the amount of certain duties alleged to have been illegally imposed in that year upon goods of the plaintiffs. It appears that the plaintiffs imported into the United States, from France, certain articles invoiced as "white linen torchon laces and insertings;" that they were...

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