Shaw v. Dix
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland
Appeal by the United States from a Decision of the Board of General Appraisers Reversing a Decision of the Collector of the Port of Baltimore.
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS, District Judge.
Dix & Wilkins, the appellees, imported into the port of Baltimore, in 1884, two cargoes of cocoanuts in bulk, invoiced at specified prices per thousand, according to sizes. Om the discharge of the cargoes the number of cocoanuts fell short of the number stated in the invoices, and this shortage the government officers accounted for by an estimate that the missing quantity was contained in a mass of broken and rotten cocoanuts, not countable. This mass of offensive, decaying vegetable matter was of no value, and the importers were required to have it carted off and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Marriott v. BruneSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
- United States v. BacheCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1894