ALTMAN & CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 208.

224 U.S. 583 (1912)

B. ALTMAN & CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry J. Webster, with whom Mr. John K. Maxwell and Mr. Howard T. Walden were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Wemple, with whom Mr. Charles E. McNabb, Assistant Attorney, and Mr. Frank L. Lawrence, Special Attorney, were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, affirming a decision of the Board of General Appraisers, which sustained an assessment of duty by the collector at the port of New York upon a certain bronze bust imported by the appellants, B. Altman & Co.

The bust was imported from France and was...

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