Claflin Co. v. United States

De Vexes, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

Two appeals by different parties to tbe same record from a decision of tbe Board of General Appraisers. Tbe protestants are appellants, and tbe appeals present tbe same questions of law.

*402The importations were of parasols composed of either cotton, linen, or silk and embroidered or appliquéd with either cotton or silk, imported in part under the tariff act of 1897 and in part under the tariff act of 1909.

Those imported under the act of 1897 were, according to materials and condition, subjected to the proviso to paragraph 339, which reads as…