Hamrah Bros. v. United States

This appeal concerns an importation of a single case of goods which, upon arrival at the port of New York, was sent to the public stores for examination and appraisement. The question involved is one of shortage. It appears that upon arrival at that port and before transmission to the public stores for examination and ap-praisement the attention of the law division of the collector of customs was called to the package. The following notation was made by an official of that division upon a slip attached to the invoice, which reads:

Respectfully returned to 7th Div. Law. Div. reports case…