Beuttell v. Magone
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
At Law. During November and December of the year 1887 the plaintiff made six importations from Halifax, England, into the port of New York, of certain merchandise invoiced as Daghestan rugs and Dag. flag. rugs.
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At Law. During November and December of the year 1887 the plaintiff made six importations from Halifax, England, into the port of New York, of certain merchandise invoiced as Daghestan rugs and Dag. flag. rugs. These rugs were classified for duty by the defendant, as collector of that port, as rugs of like character or description to Tournay velvet carpets, under the provision that “mats, rugs, screens, covers, hassocks, bedsides, and other portions of carpets or carpetings, símil be subjected to the rate of duty herein imposed on carpets or carpeting of like character or description,”…
1Opinion of the Court
Lacombe, Circuit Judge,
{orally.') The rugs in suit are of like character or description to Wilton or Tournay velvet carpets. The provisions for these and other carpets or carpetings, and also for rugs, contained in Schedule K of the tariff act-of March 3, 1883, and similar provisions contained in various other tariff acts, from 1861 to March 3, 1883, — Act March 2, 1861, c. 68, §13, (12 (J.'s. St. 178;) Act July 14, 1862, c. 163, § 9. (Id. 543;) Act Juno 80, 1864, c. 171, § 5, (13 U. S. St. 202;) Act March 2, 1867, c. 197, § 1, (14 U. S. St. 559;) Schedule L, § 2504, Rev. St.,- — leave little…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Beuttell & Sons v. United StatesCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1918