Bartlett v. Lockwood

Citations

• 160 U.S. 357
• 16 S. Ct. 334
• 40 L. Ed. 455
• 1896 U.S. LEXIS 2106

Syllabus

<p>In an action in the state courts of New York against the collector of the port of New York, the health officer of that port, and the owners of warehouses employed for public storage, to recover damages suffered by an importer of rags by reason of their having been ordered to the warehouses by the collector and disinfected there, and detained until the charges for disinfection and storage were paid, a ruling by the highest court of the State that the direction of the collector to send the rags to the storehouses was pursuant to the requirement that they should be disinfected, and was in aid of the health officer in the execution of his official power by the observance of the regulations made by him — that the collector gave no order for their disinfection — that the health officer gave no such order — that the defendants assumed to disinfect them without authority, and hence that their charges were illegal — but that, as the colleptor had properly sent the goods to the warehouses for such ac ion as the health authorities might see fit to take, the plaintiffs became liable for storage and lighterage, presents no Federal question for review by this court.</p>