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S. Weigall Vs. W. Morgan Shuster

G. S. WEIGALL, plaintiff-appellee, vs. W. MORGAN SHUSTER, Collector of Customs of the Philippine Islands, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 1435 | 1908-09-28

D E C I S I O N


TRACEY, J.:

This is an old controversy recently revived by filing in this court the brief of the appellant, the appellee having renounced his brief.

On March 4, 1903, the defendant, who was collector of the port of Manila, and also Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago, officially imposed a fine of $200 United States money, upon the plaintiff, the captain of the British steamer Loonsang, for a violation of the Chinese Exclusion Law, in permitting the escape of an immigrant from his ship, and asserted a lien upon her, refusing clearance papers unless the master paid the fine. Instead of paying it, the...