Frost & Adams v. Saltonstall
Citations
- 129 F. 481
- 1887 U.S. App. LEXIS 2247
Syllabus
<p>1. Customs Duties — Protest—Timeliness—Holidays.</p> <p>Notice was posted in a customhouse that it would be closed June 17th —a holiday observed by local custom, but not established by law. Certain importers, having notice of the closing of the customhouse on that day, which was the tenth day after the liquidation of their entry, filed a protest on the day following. Held, that-the protest was filed in accordance with the requirements of section 2931, Rev. St., providing that protests shall be made “within ten days after the ascertainment and liquidation of the duties.”</p>
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- “The court file is burdened with an obviously premature Rule 23 Motion that is devoid of content. . . . Yet plaintiff advocates a system in which litigants race to the courthouse to file empty, placeholder motions that may or may not ever be litigated . . . .”
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