Hahn v. United States

WHEELER, District Judge.

The question here is whether “various articles, such as paper cutters, paper weights, knife handles, and pen or pencil holders or handles made wholly or chiefly of agate or onyx,” are dutiable by similitude to “precious stones, cut, but not set,” under Act Oct. i, 1890, par. 454 (26 Stat. 601), as they were finally held to be by similitude to “precious stones of all kinds,” under Act 1883 (22 Stat. 488), in Hahn v. U. S., 40 C. C. A. 622, 100 Fed. 635, between these same parties. These similitude provisions, respectively, lay on “every nonenumerated article which bears…