Muser v. Magone
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was an action brought by Frederick W. Muser, Richard Muser, and Curt Muser, composing the firm of Muser Brothers, against the collector of the port of New York, to recover duties alleged to have been illegally exacted of them on certain importations of cotton embroideries, manufactured at St. Gall, Switzerland, where they had a branch house.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was an action brought by Frederick W. Muser, Richard Muser, and Curt Muser, composing the firm of Muser Brothers, against the collector of the port of New York, to recover duties alleged to have been illegally exacted of them on certain importations of cotton embroideries, manufactured at St. Gall, Switzerland, where they had a branch house. Their course of business there was as follows: The cloth on which the embroideries were stitched was purchased in the gray state by plaintiffs at Manchester, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr, Chief Justice Fuller,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The conclusiveness of the valuation of imported merchan dise made by the designated officials, in the absence of fraud, is too thoroughly settled to admit of further discussion. Hilton v. Merritt, 110 U. S. 97; Auffmordt v. Hedden, 137 U. S. 310; Passavant v. United States, 148 U. S. 214. InAuffmordt y. Iledden, it was said: “ The government has the right to prescribe the conditions attending the importation of goods, upon which it will permit the collector to be sued. One of .those conditions is that the…
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