Hobe Button Co. v. United States

Bland, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of the court:

Certain large buttons were imported from Germany by appellant. Twelve buttons were fastened to a card, which according to the importer’s contention was done to avoid counting the buttons. Before the buttons were sold in this country by the importer they were removed from the cards to which they were attached at the time of importation and placed on other cards upon which was the name of the importer. The importer admits that the removal of the buttons from one card to another was done in part to prevent the American purchaser from knowing that…