Louis Weinberg Associates, Inc. v. United States

Johnson, Judge:

This action involves a shortage in a case of fur felt hat bodies imported from Italy. The plaintiff claims, first, that duty was assessed upon a quantity of merchandise in excess of that actually imported and, second, that duties should have been remitted for merchandise short shipped, not landed, or not found'.

At the trial, the vice president of the plaintiff testified that as a part of his duties he examined and cheeked up the contents of case LWAI 161 with the invoiced quantity when delivered by the trucking firm of J. Y. McEvoy and found that the case contained 321%2 dozen…