Neuman v. United States

The merchandise in question comes packed in hermetically sealed tin cans. Each can contains the meat of a cured and cooked ham, *65from which the bone has been removed. It does not appear in the record that the meat has been cut into pieces or otherwise changed in form, except in so far as that resrdt necessarily follows from cooking and from the extraction of the bone. Each can of the importation is said to contain the entire meat of a single ham only and has the usual shape of a ham in outline.

The present importation comes from Germany, and a sample package has been submitted as an exhibit in…