Samuel Blatchford

“ We are of opinion that the article was not free, nor liable to a duty of 35 per cent. as a manufacture of bones, but that, being bone-black, it was liable, as 'black of bone,' to the duty imposed on it; and that it was proper to direct a verdict for the defendant.
Objection was made to the admission of evidence to show the difference in value between bone-black and crude bone; and that between bone-black and white calcined bone-ash; and that between bone-black before its use by sugar refiners and after it was spent. We see no good objection to the evidence. ”

“ This is an action brought in November, 1881, by the members of the firm of Harrison, Havemeyer & Co. against Edwin A. Merritt, collector of the port of New York, in a court of the state of New York, and removed into the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of New York, to recover back duties exacted, in May and June, 1881, at the rate of 25 per cent. ”