Roser Customs Service v. United States

Landis, Judge:

These two protests, consolidated for trial at Brownsville, Texas, on February 28, 1968, were transferred to New *21Orleans for further proceedings on completion of testimony taken at Brownsville. The protests come to us for a ruling on defendant’s objections to the breadth of a subpoena served on Mr. O. M. McCombs, a customs official of the United States Laboratory at New Orleans, to appear, testify, and produce at New Orleans all records “showing the actual assay” (R. 63) of various carloads of fluorspar, imported by rail from Mexico at Brownsville in January and February 1961.

The…