Dutilh v. Maxwell

BETTS, District Judge.

The importations in question in this case were of merchandise purchased in Austria and invoiced and shipped at Trieste in June and September, 1849, and entered at the custom-house in New-Yoi’k in August, September and October, 1849. The purchase-prices of the goods were stated, in the invoices and entries, in the paper currency of Austria, from which a deduction on some of 28% per cent., and on some of 27% per cent., was claimed by the plaintiffs at the custom-house, to bring the invoice prices in florins to the specie standard. The values of the goods were, however,…