Birtwell v. Saltonstall

The plaintiff in this case imported from Antwerp the ironwork for the foundation or frame of the floor in the third story of the new court-house in Boston. Each piece of iron was manufactured, fitted, punched, and shaped for its special place in the floor frame. The defendant exacted a duty of II cents per pound upon all of this iron, under that provision of schedule C, of the act of March 3, 1883, which provides as follows:

“Iron or steel beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, ear-truck channels, TT, columns, and posts, or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and…