Goldberg v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal by Goldberg & Co. from the decision of the circuit court for the southern district of New York, which affirmed the decision of the board of general appraisers as to the classification of sundry importations -of hat trimmings and ornaments.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
In the years 1891 and 1892 the appellants imported into the port of New York sundry invoices of articles styled “manufactures, of jet,” which were hat trimmings and ornaments composed of black glass and wire; the glass being the component material of chief value, and made in imitation of jet. Jet is a well-known article, and is defined to be “a variety of lignite, of a very compact texture, and velvet-black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into toys, buttons, mourning jewels, and the like.” Webst. Dict. 1884. The most important jet veins are said,…
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