Badger v. Ranlett
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to.the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The firm of D. L. Ranlett & Co. imported into the port of New Orleans, from Liverpool, England, in 1880, certain articles, entered some as “ bundles black iron cotton-ties, thirty strips each bundle, and thirty Kennedy buckles; ” others as “ bundles blacked iron cotton-ties, arrow buckles, No. 4, thirty buckles and thirty strips to each bundle, eleven feet; ” others as “ bundles blacked…
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Error to.the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The firm of D. L. Ranlett & Co. imported into the port of New Orleans, from Liverpool, England, in 1880, certain articles, entered some as “ bundles black iron cotton-ties, thirty strips each bundle, and thirty Kennedy buckles; ” others as “ bundles blacked iron cotton-ties, arrow buckles, No. 4, thirty buckles and thirty strips to each bundle, eleven feet; ” others as “ bundles blacked iron cotton-ties, Kennedy buckles, thirty buckles and thirty strips to each bundle, eleven feet.” Having paid under…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatcheord
The plaintiff in error contends that the court charged the jury, in substance, that if the goods were, and were known as, cotton-ties, they could not be at the same time band iron ; and that this was error. The argument is, that the term “ band iron” may include an article known as a “cotton-tie;” that to say that one sort of band iron is known by the name of “ cotton-tie ” is not to say that necessarily it is no longer band iron; that all that was done to the band iron was to cut it into lengths of eleven feet and blacken it; and that this is not to make a manufacture of iron not otherwise…
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