Spatola Wines, Inc. v. United States

Eicwall, Judge:

The merchandise involved in this case consists of 2,000 cases or rum entered for warehouse at the port of Philadelphia *183on March. 20, 1944. Thereafter, some of the merchandise was withdrawn from time to time for consumption, some was transported in bond to Los Angeles, some was abandoned, and some found broken or missing.

The protest herein, filed on January 23,1952, states that it is made against the collector’s decision of January 9, 1952, “declining to ascertain, fix and make a final liquidation of the rates and amounts of duties and taxes to be paid and give proper notice of…