Pistorino & Co. v. United States

DISSENTING OPINION

Rioiiaedson, Judge:

In view of the unorthodox description of merchandise set forth in the original protest filed by the plaintiff-consignee-broker (expressed in terms of stated values rather than in terms of the conventional identification of articles), compounded by statements appearing in the official papers to which the court must turn for intelligent understanding of the protest claims,1 a jurisdictional question arising from the face of the pleading is presented to the court at the outset. It seems clear that the $9,588 figure mentioned in the protest relates to the…