American Bead Co. v. United States

The case of H. Wolff & Co. v. United States, supra, having been decided by citation only of earlier decisions of the court deemed precisely controlling, and a petition for reargument having been filed, the court deems more extended observations appropriate. That .petition for rehearing lays particular stress upon the appraiser’s report upon the protest, wherein it is stated that the articles “are in the opinion of this office commercially known as jewelry.” This is followed by the claim of the Government that this was a finding by the appraiser which was binding upon the Board of General…