Giglio v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was an application by S. Giglio for a review of a decision of the board of general appraisers in respect to the amount of duties payable on certain imported olive oil.
1Opinion of the Court
WHEELER, District Judge.
This protest relates to a quantity of olive oil fit for salad purposes imported from Genoa, dutiable at 35 cents 'per gallon under paragraph 32 of the act of 1894. It is bought by the kilo there, and comes in tins in sizes of about a quart and from one to five gallons; and, when sold in the tins here, the quantity is reckoned according to the quarts or gallons of the sizes, without regard to exact measurement. The duties were assessed upon the quantity returned by the gauger, which corresponded with the sizes. The importer says this measure exceeds the true measure by…
2Cited by1 opinion
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