United States v. Three Hundred & Twenty-Six Cases of Hosiery

28 F. Cas. 135, 1861 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30

Opinion

THE COURT

[SHIPMAN, District Judge],

however, held that whether the claimants were bound to have produced the original Saxony invoices was simply a question of law, and as the invoices which they did produce contained the value in Prussian thalers as well as in Bremen thalers, held that the government could not recover. The jury accordingly found for the claimants.