United States v. Peabody

This appeal is brought by the Government to establish the status, under the tariff act of 1897, of certain containers which were brought into this country filled with ad valorem contents of a liquid or semiliquid character.

Under that act the appellees imported various consignments of pineapples, Scotch kippered herrings, Yarmouth bloaters, oil geranium reunion, oil patchoule, and oil pennyroyal, all in hermetically sealed tins; chowchow and anchovy paste, in stone jars; alizarin green S. W. paste, in barrels; and rosewater, in a metal drum.

*131The imported goods were severally dutiable at ad…