HARTRANFT v. SHEPPARD

No. 191.

125 U.S. 337 (1888)

HARTRANFT v. SHEPPARD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 2, 1888.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General for plaintiff in error.

Mr. F.D. Pritchard, for defendants in error, submitted on the printed record.


The following opinion, prepared by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, was delivered by the court as its opinion.

The single question in this case is, whether quilts composed of cotton and eider-down, or silk and eider-down, the eider-down in each case being the component material of chief value, are dutiable, on importation into the United States, as manufactures of cotton or of silk, not enumerated, at thirty-five per centum ad valorem if of cotton, and at fifty per centum...

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