Case ID: us-ct-cl_40/html/0525-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WARNER BARNES & CO. v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [40 C. Cls. R., 1; 197 U. S. R., 419.]
    
      On the claimants’ Affeal.
    
    Claimants sue to recover duties exacted on merchandise shipped to Manila between April 11, 1899, the date of the treaty with Spain, and October 25, 1901. The duties are levied under an order of the President dated July 12, 189S.
   The court below decides that the duties were legally exacted and dismisses the petition.

The decision of the court below is reversed on the authority of Fourteen Diamond Rings, 183 U. S. R., 176.

Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court April 3, 1905.