Forbes Lithograph Manuf'g Co. v. Worthington

This case was submitted by the parties on an agreed statement of facts, from which it appeared that the plaintiffs, a corporation located at Boston, in the district of Massachusetts, imported into that port by different steamers, in 10 different lots, certain merchandise described in the invoices and entries as “iron show-cards.” These cards were prepared in different colors on plates of sheet-iron. They were lithographed, or printed from lithographic stones, on hand-presses, in the same way that lithographing is done on paper or on card-board. On this merchandise,—that is, on these “iron…