Jimeno v. United States

CliNe, Judge:

In these suits against the United States the plaintiffs seek to recover a part of the duty paid on several shipments of honeydew melons imported at the port of New York, the claim being that the collector should have made an allowance in liquidation or reliquidation under the provisions of section 506 of the Tariff Act of 1930 for the melons condemned by the Department of Health.

When the cases were called for trial these three protests were consolidated for hearing and counsel for the plaintiffs offered in evidence all the papers sent to the court by the collector of customs,…