Wilson v. Spaulding

This suit is brought to recover duties paid by the plaintiffs, under protest, to the defendant, as collector of customs of the port of Chicago, upon certain woolen knit goods, shirts, and drawers imported by plaintiffs in September, 1882. The goods in question were charged with duty at the rate of 40 cents per pound, and 35 per cent, ad valorem, under the twelfth paragraph of class 3, schedule L, § 2504, which reads as follows:

“Flannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit goods, balmorals, woolen and worsted yarn, and all manufactures of every description, composed wholly or in part of worsted, the…