Samuel Blatchford

“ Hedden, and said that the importers had no right to say that certain witnesses should be produced before the reappraisers; and that, although the importers had the right to have a fair opportunity to show their gtoods, and to make suggestions in regard to them, they had no right to be there to examine witnesses, or to explore the sources of the information of the reappraisers, or to have counsel there, as such, to cross-examine witnesses, and argue the case. It also charged the jury that the reappraisers had a right to read the regulations. ”

“ The case was tried before Judge WHEELER and a jury, in December, 1886, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs for $2,124.14, on which a judgment was entered for them for that amount and costs, November 5, 1887. To review that judgment, the defendant has brought a writ of error.
On the appraisement of the goods they had been increased in valuation more than 10 per cent. above the invoice valuation, and, additional duty and a penal duty being imposed in each case, the importers asked for a reappraisement, pursuant to statute, before the general appraiser and a merchant appraiser. ”

“ Booth was a manufacturer of silk goods, at Paterson, N. J., of the same general description as those imported by the plaintiffs on the Normandie; that there was a competition between such goods as were imported by the plaintiffs by the Normandie and those manufactured by Mr. Booth; that Mr. ”