Legal Opinion

United States v. Rosenstein

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York

Decided December 17, 1898No. 2,770Published

This was an appeal by the United States from the decision of the board of general appraisers sustaining the protest of Rosenstein Bros. as to the classification of certain imported fish.

1Opinion of the CourtTownsend, District Judge

(orally). The fish herein, upon the testimony, and in view of the decision of Judge Coxe in Rosenstein v. U. S., 71 Fed. 949, and upon the evidence therein, which covered the same class of articles as are under consideration herein, are herrings, pickled and spiced, commercially known as Russian sardines, and imported in small kegs. Although they are commercially known as Eussian sardines, the evidence and the decision aforesaid show that they ar.e not commercially known as sardines, and are not sardines in fact. If it were necessary to the decision in this case, I should he inclined to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Rosenstein v. United StatesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1896

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