Hedden v. Robertson

Citations

• 151 U.S. 520
• 14 S. Ct. 434
• 38 L. Ed. 257
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2076

Syllabus

<p>Woven cotton clotli, tlie groundwork. of which was uniform, and upon which were figures or patterns, woven into it by means -of a Jacquard attachment contemporaneously with the weaving of the fabric, and which was known as Madras mull, being imported into the United States in 1886; became subject to the specific duties imposed by Schedule I (paragraphs 318, 320, 321 in the customs enumeration) of the tariff act of March 3, 1883, .c. 121, 22 Stat. 488, estimated by the number of threads to the squaie inch, and not to the.ad valorem, duty imposed by the same schedule on manufactures of cotton n,oi specially, enumerated.</p>