United States v. Hartley & Graham

Citations

• 140 F. 969
• 1905 U.S. App. LEXIS 4867

Syllabus

<p>Customs Duties — Protest—Sufficiency—Specification of Wrong Invoice.</p> <p>Certain imported merchandise, covered by an entry embracing three invoices, was all subjected to the same rate of duty, which, it appeared, was excessive as to one of the invoices. In protesting against the rate of duty the importer specified one of the two invoices on which duty was correctly assessed. Held, that the protest should be considered restricted to the invoice which it specified.</p>