United States v. Sixty-Five Terra-Cotta Vases

This writ of error is brought to review a judgment of the United States district court for the southern district of New York dismissing the libel of information. The suit was brought to condemn certain terra-cotta vases, Etruscan vases, etone images, spears, lances, and other articles, because of their alleged fraudulent entry upon importation by the owner to avoid the payment of duties. The evidence, in connection with the admissions of the pleadings, tended' to show that the imported articles were a collection of antiquities imported by one De Morgan for sale, but that he represented in the…