UNITED STATES v. GOLDENBERG

No. 35.

168 U.S. 95 (1897)

UNITED STATES v. GOLDENBERG.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 25, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Attorney General, for the United States, submitted upon the brief filed April 1, 1897, by Mr. Edward B. Whitney, then Assistant Attorney General.

Mr. Edwin B. Smith for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The question must be answered in the negative. Such answer is demanded by the obvious and natural import of the language, giving to it the ordinary grammatical construction. This is practically conceded by counsel for the Government, for he says in his brief "a literal interpretation of the statute favors the importers"; and again, referring to...

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