Abercrombie & Fitch Co. v. United States

I do not question that the importations now before the court possess considerable beauty and artistic character and would, by most people, be called “works of art.” However, a reading of the multitude of decisions dealing with the phrase, “works of art,” in the various tariff statutes convinces me that the term has acquired a rather narrowly limited meaning. It is not possible to find a decision precisely in point and it is true that in a number of the opinions which discuss the law what is said about the meaning of the term might be properly described as dicta. Nevertheless, even if it be so…