Willits & Co. v. United States

Martin, Presiding Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

Tbe appraiser described tbe importations as follows:

The merchandise covered by this protest consists of beef cracklings. It is the refuse or waste that remains after the tallow has been cooked out of the meat. It is used here as a part of manufactured chicken feed.

This brief description of tbe merchandise is substantially correct. It appears from tbe uncontradicted testimony in tbe case that in tbe operation of meat-packing bouses in South America, as in this country also, there remains a considerable amount of refuse meat, consisting…