United States v. Ranlett & Stone
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. Nanlett and Stone imported at the port of New Orleans, from Liverpool, England, 2925 bales of grain bags, known as cental bags, each bale containing one thousand bags, or 2,925,000 in all, by several vessels, the entries running from.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. Nanlett and Stone imported at the port of New Orleans, from Liverpool, England, 2925 bales of grain bags, known as cental bags, each bale containing one thousand bags, or 2,925,000 in all, by several vessels, the entries running from. August 14, 1893, to January 15, 1894. The bags were entered free of duty under paragraph 493 of the act of October 1, 1890, c. 1244, 26 Stat. 603, as bags of American manufacture returned to the United States. That paragraph is as follows: “Articles the growth, produce and manufacture of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
In respect of these importations, it must be assumed that the bags were not in fact all of American manufacture or substantially so.
The opinion of the General Appraisers stated that “it was admitted that there were bags of foreign manufacture and of American manufacture, all indiscriminately mingled together, no attempt being made on entry or afterwards to separate from these enormous totals of goods of the same class those claimed to be relieved from duty accompanied by the proof establishing such indulgence.” The examiner testified that he “in some cases examined every bale of the whole…
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