Patton v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action by the United States in the District Court against the importing firm of George W. Patton & Co. to recover certain duties claimed to be due on thirty-three bales of merchandise entered by the importers as “ wool waste,” and claimed by them to be dutiable at ten cents per pound under the following clause of schedule K of the tariff act of 1883: “Woollen rags, shoddy,…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action by the United States in the District Court against the importing firm of George W. Patton & Co. to recover certain duties claimed to be due on thirty-three bales of merchandise entered by the importers as “ wool waste,” and claimed by them to be dutiable at ten cents per pound under the following clause of schedule K of the tariff act of 1883: “Woollen rags, shoddy, mungo, waste, and flocks, ten cents per pound.” At the time of the importation (November, 1888) the duties were…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
1. The first assignment of error is that which is taken to the instruction to the jury that the importation in question, though called wool waste, seems to be so called only because of its resemblance to what was formerly known by this designation ; that it does not consist of refuse or broken particles thrown off in the process of manufacture, but is made intentionally, by tearing up what are called “ wool tops,” which consist of wool which has been put through several processes and prepared for spinning, and that the term “ waste ” did not embrace this commodity.
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