Draper & Co. v. United States

Johnson, Judge:

The controversy arising in these cases involves a difference in the weight of 2,297 bales of New Zealand wool, including 89 bales of noils. There are three shipments involved and the difference between the weights returned by the Government weighers and the weights found by the importer’s warehouse weighers, who weighed the bales upon arrival at the warehouse, amounted to 11,304 pounds.

The operator of the warehouse, George Mansfield, testified relative to the general practice in weighing and storing wools. According to the witness, the bales were all weighed separately upon…