Thomsen & Co. v. United States

This appeal is founded upon an effort of Thomsen & Co., of New York, to be relieved from alleged excess duties imposed by the collector of customs at that port upon an importation of wool from Tientsin, China. While the protest counts solely upon the point that the wool was rated improperly for duty, the proven facts in the record show the claim to be founded unon a mistaken price written upon the invoice as the cost of the wool actually imported. During 1909 A. Waite & Co., of Tientsin, China, invoiced to Thomsen & Co., of *70New York, 38 bales of wool. There is no controversy as to the facts,…