Joseph P. Bradley

“ The court declined to adopt the propositions of the counsel, but charged the jury that, as the invoice certified by the consul purported to show the value of the goods 'free on board at Antwerp,' if the jury were satisfied by the evidence that this meant that the value so expressed included charges,-the charges of transportation and placing on board ship; charges from the markets of the country to the ship,-then it was not an invoice of the 'dutiable value,' but was an incomplete invoice ”

“ If they gave him to understand that that was the only thing he could do,-if they met him right there, when he wanted to put in this additional invoice, and said 'the only thing you can do is to enter these goods at this value,' and the importer was compelled to do it in order to proceed at all, and he yielded to that,-then he was not bound to say anything about an appraisement. ”

“ As to the deficiency in the weight of the goods, as the value was measured by the weight, both in the invoice and by the appraiser, namely, so much per 1,000 kilograms, we think the court was right in telling the jury that any deficiency arising from loss of goods, and not from mere shrinkage, was a proper subject of recovery. If goods are damaged or affected intrinsically, that is a matter for examination and appraisement under section 2927, Rev. ”