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ROBERTSON v. BRADBURY

No. 58.

132 U.S. 491 (1889)

10 S.Ct. 158

33 L.Ed. 405

ROBERTSON, v. BRADBURY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 16, 1889.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edward Hartley and Mr. Walter H. Coleman for defendant in error.

Mr. Edwin B. Smith, on behalf of parties interested in the question, filed an additional brief by leave of court upon the question when section 7 of c. 121, act of March 3, 1883, 22 Stat. 488, took effect.

MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit to recover alleged excess of duties exacted on certain cargoes of asphaltum in cakes, imported by Bradbury, the plaintiff below, from Antwerp, in May, 1883. Two questions are presented in the case for our determination: First, whether the 7th section of the act of March 3d, 1883, entitled "An act to reduce internal revenue taxation, and for other purposes," 22 Stat. 488, c. 121, went into...

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