Thompson-Starrett Co. v. United States

It appears from the undisputed testimony in this case that in the year 1921 the appellant was a contracting company engaged in the business of procuring supplies and erecting buildings in this country, and that it then had under construction a certain large apartment house in the city of New York. The foyer floors of this building were to he made of marble tiles', and these were ordered by the appellant from abroad. In that transaction the foreign dealer was furnished with blue prints showing the dimensions of the floors in question, and in turn he exhibited samples of certain tiles carried…