Vietor v. Arthur
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court oí the United States for the Southern District of New York. Subsequently to June 22, 1874, Vietor imported into New York, stockings. Some of them were wholly worsted. The others were composed of cotton and worsted, cotton being the material of chief value. ' They were intended to be worn by men, women, and children, and were made on frames.
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Error to the Circuit Court oí the United States for the Southern District of New York. Subsequently to June 22, 1874, Vietor imported into New York, stockings. Some of them were wholly worsted. The others were composed of cotton and worsted, cotton being the material of chief value. ' They were intended to be worn by men, women, and children, and were made on frames. They were also “knit goods,” this term comprising all goods made on frames,- and also all hand-knit stockings and other knitted articles of various kinds. They were classified by the appraiser as worsted knit goods, costing over…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
The question in this case is whether stockings of worsted, or worsted and cotton, made on frames, and worn by men, women, and children, imported after the Revised Statutes went into effect, June 22, 1874, are dutiable as knit goods, under schedule L, class 3, sect. 2504, or as stockings, under schedule M. The two provisions under which the parties make their respective claims are as follows: —
Sohed. L. — “Flannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit goods, balmorals, woollen and worsted yarns, and all manufactures of every description composed wholly or in part of worsted, the hair of the alpaca,…
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