United States v. One Pearl Chain
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The court annulled the seizure by a special employe of the Treasury Department of a pearl chain found in the possession of Ida Josephine Dulles, the claimant and defendant in error in this proceeding, on her arrival in this country from abroad. 139 Eed. 510. Sections 2799, 2801, 2802, and 3082, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The court annulled the seizure by a special employe of the Treasury Department of a pearl chain found in the possession of Ida Josephine Dulles, the claimant and defendant in error in this proceeding, on her arrival in this country from abroad. 139 Eed. 510. Sections 2799, 2801, 2802, and 3082, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1872, 1873, 2014], read as follows: “Sec. 2799. In order to ascertain what articles ought to be exempted as the wearing apparel and other personal baggage, and the tools or…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
This cause was most elaborately discussed upon the former appeal (123 Fed. 371, 59 C. C. A. 499), and it seems unnecessary to repeat anything which can be found in our former opinion, or in the two opinions in the Dodge Case (111 Fed. 165, 49 C. C. A. 287, 56 L. R. A. 130; 131 Fed. 849, 65 C. C. A. 603), where the whole subject of declaration and entry of articles brought by passengers arriving by vessels from foreign Countries was carefully considered. The case was practically disposed of when, upon the first appeal, we held that the words “wearing apparel, value not…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Keck v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1899
- One Pearl Chain v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1903
- Dodge v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1904
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