Robinson v. United States

WHEELER, District Judge.

The goods in question are found by the board to be woven wholly of silk from 4 to 12 inches wide, “used directly in these widths, either exclusively or chiefly, for trimming women’s hats, bonnets or other wearing apparel; are generally known in commerce as chiffon or mousseline bands, or as gauze ribbons, or as gauze bands,” and were assessed as “trimmings,” under paragraph 390 of the act of July 24, 1897 (30 Stat. 187 [U. _S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1670]), which lays a duty on “laces, and articles made wholly or in part of lace, edgings, insertings, galloons, chiffon or…