WIMPFIlEIMER V. ERHARDT.
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quantities in bulk, becauSe of the great danger of fire. The matches involved in this case are of high grade and quality, and it appears, further, from the testimony, that they are usually sold in England in the same kind of boxes as those in which they were shipped to this country. . Upon the authority of Oberteuffer v. Robertson, 116 U. S. 499, 6 Sup. Ct. 462, and Magone v. Rosenstein, 142 U. S. 604, 12 Sup. Ct. 391, the finding and order of the general appraisers is reversed, and the appeal sustained. WIMPFHEIMER et al. v. ERHARDT. (Circuit Court, S. D. New Y!lrk. October 6, 1893.) CUSTOMS DUTIES-CLASSIFICATION-FUR WASTE. ETC.
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Articles of merchandise imported in the years 1889 and 1890, and known to trade and commerce, respectively, as "fur waste," "hares' combings," "hares' waste," "hares' dags," and "coneys' dags," were not dutiable at the rate of 20 per cent. ad valorem, under the provision for "hatters' fur, not on the skin," contained in paragraph 450 (Tariff' Ind., New) of Schedule N of the tariff' act of March 3, 1883, (22 stat. 513,) but were dutiable at the rate of 10 per cent. ad valorem, under the provision for "waste, all not specially enumerated or provid·ed for in this act," contained in paragraph 493 (Tariff' Ind., New) of the aforesaid Schedule N, (22 Stat. 514.)
At Law. Action to recover duties paid under protest. directed for plaintiffs.
Verdict
Plaintiff's imported in the years 1889 and 1890, from a foreign country into the United States, at the port of New York, certain articles of merchandise, invoiced as "fur waste," "hares' combings," "hares' waste," hares' dags," and "coneys' dags." These articles were classified for duty as "hatters' fur, not on the skin," under the provision for such fur contained in paragraph 450 of Schedule N of the tariff' act of March 3, 1883, (22 Stat. 513;) and duty at the rate of 20 per cent. ad valorem, the rate fixed by that provision, was exacted thereon by the collector of that port. Against this classification and this exaction, plaintiff's duly and seasonably protested, claiming that these articles were not "hatters' fur, not on the skin," but were "waste. not specially enumerated or provided for," and were therefore dutiable at the rate of 10 per cent. ad valorem, as such waste, under the provision for "waste, all not specially enumerated or provided for in this act," contained in paragraph 493 of the aforesaid Schedule N, (22 514.) Thereafter, plaintiff's made due and seasonable appeals to the secretary of the treasury, and, within 90 days after adverse decisio,ns were made by him thereon, duly brought suit to recover the amount, with interest thereoB, of all duty exacted in excess of duties at the rate of 10 per cent. ad valorem. Upon the trial it appeared that skins of coneys and hares, from which one kind of hatters' fur is obtained, as taken from these animals, were first split open and stretched; that these skins, after being split open and stretched, were cleaned of blood, or any other foreign matter that might be upon them; that they were then plucked or pulled of the outer growth on the fur thereon, consisting of coarse hairs; that they were then subjected to a process of brushing, from which process was obtained what was invoiced and commercially known as "fur waste;" that they were then subjected to a process of "carroting,"-a treatment by means of a preparation of qUicksilver and acid,-so that the fur thereon might felt; that they were afterwards dried and brushed, and what was then brushed from the skins of hares was invoiced and commercially known as "hares' combings;" that they were then put through a machine that cut the fur otr, and cut the pelts
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IntQ llk.e vermlceW,sent the fur, with some admixture, Into one place, and dropped under' thetnacblne the pelt. so cut, and the other things produced by this oPeratlbD.; ··that the fur, with Its admixtures, was then subjected w· a process of blowing, by which the pure turwas separated from its admi;'turesi that this .pure fur, so obtained, was commercially known as "batters' furi" that Its admixtures, after such separation, were commercially kn,oWJ;l'I.lf fromcQlJey skins, dl\gs," and, If from hares' skins, as "hares"dags," being, respectively, the same kinds of articles as were respectively sO invoiced; that from: what was' dropped under the machine before In cutting hares' $ins, was obtained wl1lJ.t ·was invoiced and commercially known as "hares' waste;" that "fur waste," "hares' combings," "coneys' dags," "hares' dags," and "hares' waste" were never, any of them, regarded or known, commerciallY,as "hatters' fur, not on the skin," or as a variety thereof; and that the only things obtained from coneys' and hares' skins that were so regarded.o;r so known wereartioles.hereinbefore described as ''hatters' fur."
BISTER et aI. v. UNITED STATES.
(Olrcult Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. JlI.nuary 12, 1894.) No. 37. CUSTOMS· DUTIES-CLASSIFICATlON......GI,ORIA'CLoTH.
Gloria cloth is dutiable at 12 cents per square yard and 50 per cent. ad valorem, as "women's and children's dress goods;" or "goods of similar description and character,composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted," etc., under paragraph 395 of the tarii! act of 1890, and not at 50 per cent. ad valorem, as a "manufacture of silk, or of' which silk Is the componeIit material of chief value," under paragraph 414. 54 Fed. 158, aiirmed. Hartranft v. Meyer, 10 Sup. Ct. 751, 135 U. S. 237, distinguished.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for, the Southern District of New York. Application by Rister & Schw.itt for a review of a decision of the board of general appraisers affirming a decision of the collector of the port of New York as to the classification of certain gloria cloth imported by them. The circuit court affirmed the board's deGision. 54 Fed. 158. The importers appeal. Affirmed. Chas. Curie, David I. Mackie, and W. Wickham Smith, for appel. lants. Edward Mitchell and Jas. T. Van Rensselaer, for the United States. Before WALLACE, LACOMBE, and SHIPMAN, Circuit Judges. WALLACE, Circuit Judge. The only question we have occasion to decide :upon this appeal is whether thegloria cloth imported by the is a cloth similarin description and charac-