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UNITED STATES v. ECKSTEIN

No. 52.

222 U.S. 130 (1911)

UNITED STATES v. ECKSTEIN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1911.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Wemple, with whom Mr. Martin T. Baldwin, Special Attorney, was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Wade H. Ellis, with whom Mr. John A. Kratz, Jr., was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit concerns the correct classification, under the tariff act of July 24, 1897, c. 11, 30 Stat. 151, of artificial or imitation horsehair, imported by the respondent into the port of New York on October 5, 1904.

Artificial or imitation horsehair is made from cotton waste by two processes, the Fremery and the Chardonnet. By the first process, referred...

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