York Feather & Down Corp. v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to the decision of the United States Customs Court, Third Division, C. D. 1329. The judgment overruled appellant’s protest claiming the Collector of Customs at the port of New York should have made allowance for dirt and other impurities in excess of the amount usually found in or upon such or similar merchandise consisting of white goose feathers.

The record discloses that appellant purchased 15 bales of the feathers from Nanking, China, under an order the specification of which called for best quality feathers containing no more than 10…