American Express Co. v. United States
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Appeal from Board of United States General Appraisers, T. D. 37791 (G. A. 8198). [Oral argument Mar. 27 and Oct. 21,1919, by Mr. Lane and Mr. Baldwin.]
1Dissent
DISSENTING OPINION BY
DE VRIES, JUDGE.1
The opinion of the majority of the court herein is to my mind so far-reaching in effect and so subversive of former well-settled rules *291of import customs construction that this dissent therefrom is recorded. The importation is aptly described therein as follows:
The merchandise here is sheets or plates of metal (by one 'witness referred to as “slabs” or “ingots”), 6 inchés long, 3 inches wide, and about one-eighth of an inch in thickness, the content being 90 per cent platinum and 10 per cent iridium, artificially combined. [Italics mine.]
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