 | 1904 - 828 pages
...as distinguished from 'vegetables' in common speech, or within the meaning of the tariff act. * * * Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a...consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables." And the court cites Robertson v. Salomon, 130 US 412, 9 Sup. Ct- 559, 32 L. Ed. 995, in which case,... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs Appeals - 1912 - 588 pages
...well-known definition of vegetables should be consulted before acting upon this resemblance alone: But in the common language of the people, whether...which, whether eaten cooked or raw- are, like potatoes, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup,... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs Appeals - 1913 - 584 pages
...natural state or were fruits not specially provided for. ln the decision of the court Gray, Judge, said : Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and pease. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - 1912 - 908 pages
...well-known definition of vegetables should be consulted before acting upon this resemblance alone: But in the common language of the people, whether...which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup,... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - 1939 - 476 pages
...In holding that tomatoes were vegetables in the tariff sense, the Supreme Court stated as follows: Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a...people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all those are vegetables, which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked, or raw,... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - 1919 - 744 pages
...(149 US, 304). Judge Martin, in United States v. Wallace, supra, cites the following from that case: Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and pease. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these... | |
 | D. R. Dowty - 1979 - 449 pages
...Supreme Court ruled against them in this case. Associate Justice Horace Grey wrote the opinion that: Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a...which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with,... | |
 | Karan Davis Cutler, Brooklyn Botanic Garden - 1997 - 116 pages
...fruits — but it chose utility over botanical technicalities and ruled on the side of American fanners: Botanically speaking tomatoes are the fruit of a vine....and peas. But in the common language of the people. ..all these are vegetables, which are grown in kitchen gardens, and ...are usually served at dinner... | |
 | Jack Staub - 2009 - 248 pages
...that the tomato, although botanically speaking a fruit, vas for official purposes a vegetable, citing: "tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers,...and peas. But in the common language of the people ...all these are vegetables, •which are grown in kitchen gardens, and. . . are usually served at... | |
 | David Starkey - 2007 - 357 pages
...evidence. In offering the court's ruling, Justice Gray wrote: Botanically speaking, tomatoes are fruits of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans,...and peas. But in the common language of the people ... all these are vegetables, which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or... | |
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Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables... 
