David Kaufman & Sons Company v. Smith

Citations

• 216 U.S. 610
• 54 L. Ed. 636
• 30 S. Ct. 419
• 1910 U.S. LEXIS 1932

Syllabus

<p>To give this court jurisdiction on a direct appeal from, or writ of error to, a Circuit Court on the ground of a constitutional question, such question must be real and substantial, and not a mere claim in words.</p> <p>The questions involved in this ease as to the right of thé Government to collect duties on merchandise coming into the United States from the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama,- under the act of March 2, 1905, c. 1311, 33 Stat. 843, have already been settled by the case of Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U: S. 244, and the writ of error is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.</p>