Legal Opinion

United States v. Fensterer

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York

Decided December 9, 1897No. 2,400PublishedCited by 1 opinion

This was an appeal by the United States from the decision of the board of general appraisers in respect to the classification for duty of certain articles of glass imported by Fensterer & Ruhe.

1Opinion of the Court

WHEELER, District Judge.

Paragraph 88 of the tariff act of 1894 provided for duties on “green and colored, molded, or pressed, and flint and lime glass bottles,” and on “all other plain green and colored, molded, or pressed, and flint lime and glassware.” In this last clause the last “and” and “'flint” are transposed, and concededly it should read, “and flint and lime glassware.” And paragraph 102 provides for duties on glass windows, and parts thereof, and mirrors with or without frames or cases, “and all manufactures of glass, or of which glass is the component of chief value, not specially…

2Cited by1 opinion

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