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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,034.
    UNITED STATES v. EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE BOXES OF SUGAR.
    [11 Int. Rev. Rec. 63.]
    District Court, D. Louisiana.
    1870.
    Customs Duties—False Invoices.
    P. H. Morgan, U. S. Dist. Atty., and Hudson & Fearn, for the United States.
    Billings & Hughes, J. L. Tissot, and W. R. Whittaker, for importers.
   In this case the sugar was libelled as having been imported under false invoices, with a view to defraud the revenue. The case was given to the jury February 5th, and a verdict was rendered in favor of the government.