Case ID: f_118/html/1022-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TOWNSEND, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MOVIUS et al. v. UNITED STATES.
    (Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
    November 6, 1902.)
    No. 67.
    Appeal by the Importers from a Decision of the Board of General Appraisers Which Affirmed the Classification by the Collector of the Importation in Question.
    Hartley & Coleman, for importers.
    Charles D. Baker, Asst. U. S. Atty.
   TOWNSEND, District Judge.

The merchandise in question was assessed for duty as a coal tar color or. dye, under paragraph 82, Tariff Act 1883, and was claimed to be free as an acid used for medicinal purposes, under paragraph 394 of said act This question has already been decided by the circuit court of appeals in Matheson & Co. v. U. S., 18 C. C. A. 143, 71 Fed. 394; -and, following the ruling there laid down, the decision of the board of appraisers is reversed.