Meyer v. Cadwalader
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was au action brought, in 1886, .by the firm of Meyer & Dickenson, in Hie court.of common pleas of the county of Philadelphia, and subsequently removed to tlie circuit court of the United States, against .John Oadwalader, collector of customs, to recover an alleged excess of duties exacted by the said collector, filie importations in question consisted of velvets, laces, and…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was au action brought, in 1886, .by the firm of Meyer & Dickenson, in Hie court.of common pleas of the county of Philadelphia, and subsequently removed to tlie circuit court of the United States, against .John Oadwalader, collector of customs, to recover an alleged excess of duties exacted by the said collector, filie importations in question consisted of velvets, laces, and gauzes, composed of silk, or of which silk was the component material of chief value. Upon those articles the collector…
1Opinion of the CourtShiras, Circuit Justice
The question at issue in the trial court, and to which the evidence and arguments of both the parties were directed, was whether the articles subject to duty were used for making or ornamenting bats, bonnets, and hoods, within the meaning of section 448 of Schedule N of the act of March 3, 1883. It was not, indeed, denied on the part of the government, that such articles could be, and were to a large extent, used for such purposes; hut the contention was that as the evidence on behalf of the government showed, if believed, that there was a common, practical, and profitable use of such…
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