United States v. C. D. Jackson & Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
On Application for Review of a Decision by the Board of United States General Appraisers. These cases were also entitled in the names of Pisani Bros., Traitell' ■Marble Company, A. E. Bockmann, and Robert Rossmann. The decision below is reported as G. A. 6,856 (T. D. 29,496), and reversed the assessment of duty by the collector of customs at the port of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
PLATT, District Judge.
The importations herein are Hauteville stone, and various other stones, which are admitted to be of substantially the same character and consistency, and for tariff purposes must *885be treated alike. The Hauteville stone was before me in the Bockmann Case (C. C.) 154 Fed. 1000, and it struck me then that it was such a kind of limestone as ought to come under the marble exception, in paragraph 117 (Act July 21, 1897, c. li, § 1, Schedule B, 30 Stat. 159 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1630]) and be thrown over into the marble paragraph, 114. It was altogether too susceptible to a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bockmann v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1908