United States v. Haaker

This appeal as presented to the court addresses a challenge to a decision of the Board of General Appraisers upon the grounds *509chiefly that there is no evidence in the record to support it. The merchandise consisted of a monument now erected and standing in a cemetery at Caldwell, N. J., constituted of a winged figure of a woman upon a pedestal made of a square shaft with a carved capital and base. The figure was classified.by the collector at the port of New York as “ sculptures ” within paragraph 470 of the tariff act of 1909, while the pedestal was classified as a manufacture of marble…