Bromley v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. For decision below, see 154 Fed. 399, affirming a decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers, which had affirmed the assessment of duty by the collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge,
John Bromley & Sons, the appellants, bought certain lace machines from one Jardine, an English lace machine manufacturer. The machines were shipped in parts, each of which parts was numbered with the individual number of the machine for which it was made. The parts here in question are standards for shafts and bed plates supporting such standards, and were described by Jardine in his invoice affidavits as “castings forming parts of machines sold by me to John' Bromley & Sons, Philadelphia.” The collector, and his action has been sustained by the Board of Appraisers…
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