PAN AMERICAN STANDARD BRANDS, INC. v. UNITED STATES

C.D. 2115; Protests Nos. 320718-K, etc.

177 F.Supp. 769 (1959)

PAN AMERICAN STANDARD BRANDS, INC., et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Customs Court, Third Division.

September 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian O. McConnie, Jr., and Hartzell, Fernandez & Novas, San Juan, P. R. (Jaime Pieras, Jr., San Juan, P. R., of counsel), for plaintiff.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Richard H. Welsh, New York City, and Margaret M. Kiley, Norwalk, Conn., Stanley R. Segal, San Juan, P. R., as amicus curiae, for defendant.

Before JOHNSON, DONLON, and RICHARDSON, Judges.


RICHARDSON, Judge.

This action was brought to recover customs duties alleged to have been illegally assessed on imported coffee by the collector of customs at the port of San Juan, P. R. It involves four cases which have been consolidated for trial.

The case was submitted upon an oral stipulation of fact entered into at the trial by counsel for the parties. The facts may be summarized briefly as follows:

By congressional enactment, 19 U.S. C.A. §...

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