Case Name: WERTHEIMER et al. v. UNITED STATES
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1896-12-09
Citations: 77 F. 600
Docket Number: No. 505
Parties: WERTHEIMER et al. v. UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 77
Pages: 600–601

Head Matter:
WERTHEIMER et al. v. UNITED STATES.
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
December 9, 1896.)
No. 505.
Customs Duties — Classification—Embroidered Cloves.
Gloves, having two rows of single-cord embroidery, between three lines or points of the material, raised up and sewed through and through, are not dutiable, under paragraph 4.58 of the tariff act of 1890, as “embroidered gloves with more than three single strands or cords.”
This was an appeal by Wertheimer & Co. from a decision of the board of general appraisers sustaining the assessment of duties by the collector of the port of JSTew York upon certain embroidered gloves, imported by the appellants.
David Ives Mackey, for plaintiffs.
Henry C. Platt, Asst. U. S. Atty.

Opinion:
WHEELER, District Judge.
Paragraph 158 of the act of 1890 puts an additional duty "on all embroidered gloves with more than three single strands or cords." The strands or cords referred to are those of the embroidery. Wertheimer v. U. S., 19 C. C. A. 501, 73 Fed. 296. The gloves in question have two rows of single-cord embroidery between three lines or points of the material, raised up and sewed through and through. They have been assessed as embroidered with more than three cords; but they do not appear to have even three cords without counting the cords of the points, which are not of the embroidery, any more than any cords upon the gloves are according lo the case referred to above. The decision which affirms this assessment, therefore, appears to be erroneous. Decision of appraisers reversed.