United States v. Twenty-Five Packages of Panama Hats
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the tariff laws of the United States in regard to attempted introduction into the commerce of the United States of goods fraudulently undervalued, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
This was a proceeding to forfeit, for fraud of foreign consignors, goods not technically entered at the New York Customs House, but unloaded from the ship and stored in General Order. The libel charges that Castillo & Co. were engaged in buying and selling Panama hats shipped to them by merchants from foreign ports. These consignors, as required bylaw, (June 10,1890, c. 407; 26 Stat. 131), delivered to the American Consular Agent, at the point of shipment, three sets of invoices showing the value of the property intended for importation into the United States. ' One of these invoices was…
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