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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; From May Sessions, 1836, to May Sessions, 1846, Inclusive

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; From May Sessions, 1836, to May Sessions, 1846, Inclusive


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...duties having accrued on the importation, they might be sued for at any time, if they had been before omitted from mistake or accident. U. S. v. Lyman, 1 Mason, 501. Meredith, for defendants. The defendants are not the owners or importers of the wool, and the question is whether they are responsible as agents. The law gives a remedy against the importer or owner, but not against an agent who declares himself to be such. The custom-house knew that the defendants, were no more than special agents for this transaction. As soon as the goods were sent to Deforest and Sons the defendants had nothing more to do with them. Judge Hopkinson, charged the jury as follows: Several questions of law and fact have been discussed in this case. The view I have of the preliminary question raised for the defence will render an examination of the other points unnecessary. The question is this: Supposing the weight of this wool to have been such as is alleged by the plaintiffs, and, of course, that its value was greater than eight cents a pound, thereby rendering it liable to duty; and granting also, that the duty might now be received from the importers, notwithstanding the action of the officers of the custom-house, declaring the goods to be free, and as such delivering them to the defendants, as the agents of the importers; are the present defendants, no fraud being alleged, liable for these duties? If an agent conceals his agency and is dealt with as the principal, he is liable in his own person for the contract? The defendants went to the custom-house as the declared agents of Deforest and Sons, for the special purpose of entering this wool for them and on their account, and had no further interest in it. When the entry was made they received a permit, the goods were delive...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150698439
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 204
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150698438
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 372 gr

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