Goetze v. United States, 182 U.S. 221 (1901)
Case details
Bluebook Citation
Goetze v. United States, 182 U.S. 221 (1901)
Country
United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided
1901
Majority
Brown (Justice)
U.S. Supreme Court
Goetze v. United States, 182 U.S. 221 (1901) Goetze v. United States
No. 340 was argued December 17-20, 1900
No. 616 was argued January 14-15, 1901
The two were decided together May 27, 190
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Syllabus
De Lima v. Bidwell, ante, 182 U. S. 1, followed by reversing the action of the general appraisers.
These were petitions for a review of two decisions of the Board of General Appraisers, holding subject to duty certain merchandise, imported, in one case from Porto Rico, and in the other from Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands. The action of the Board of General Appraisers in each case was affirmed.
MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the Court.
As the sole question presented by the record in these cases was whether Porto Rico and the Hawaiian islands were foreign countries within the meaning of the tariff law, we must hold, p. 222for the reasons stated in De Lima v. Bidwell, just decided,, that the Board of General Appraisers had no jurisdiction of the cases.
The judgments of the Circuit Court are therefore reversed, and the cases remanded to that court, with instructions to reverse the action of the Board of General Appraisers.