Syllabus. fendant herein, is a corporation duly incorporated under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, and was at the commencement of this action and still is a citizen of that State, and was not then, nor has it ever been, a citizen of the State of Ohio. Third. The matters in controversy in this suit are wholly between citizens of different States, and the amount in dispute, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars, and is to recover the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars.” The record failed to show of what State plaintiff was a citizen. Mr. Darius Dirlam for plaintiff in error. No appearance for defendant in error. THE CHIEF JUSTICE stated the case, and said: On the authority of Grace v. American Central Insurance Co., 109 U. S. 278, 283, 284; Continental Insurance Co. v. Rhoads, 119 U. S. 237; and Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railway v. Swan, 111 U. S. 379, 388, the judgment of the Circuit Court will be reversed, with instructions to remand the case to the state court with costs against defendant in error, which must also pay the costs in this court. Hanrick v. Hanrick, 153 U. S. 192, 198. Judgment reversed accordingly. BEUTTELL v. MAGONE. ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. No. 118. Argued December 19, 1895. Decided March 11, 1895. A request made to the court by each party to instruct the jury to render a verdict in his favor, is not equivalent to the submission of the case to the court without the intervention of a jury, within the intent of Rev. Stat. §§ 649, 700. Statement of the Case. When each party asks the court to instruct a verdict in his favor, it is equivalent to a request for a finding of facts, and if the court directs the jury to find a verdict for one of them, both are concluded on the finding of facts. Under the tariff act of March 3, 1883, c. 120, rugs made as rugs, and distinguishable as such by reason of their process of manufacture, size, shape, pattern, etc., were subject to the duty imposed upon rugs; and rugs made from pieces of carpets or carpetings, to the rate imposed upon the carpet from which they were made. IN March, 1887, the plaintiff in error imported a lot of rugs. They were classed by the custom authorities as "Tournay velvet carpets," and, as such, held subject to a duty of fortyfive cents per square yard and 30 per cent ad valorem. The importer protested against this levy, and claimed that the merchandise was only dutiable at 40 per cent ad valorem. The collector refusing to entertain the protest, appeal was in due time prosecuted to the Secretary of the Treasury, and upon adverse decision suit was brought to recover the difference between the duty enforced by the collector and that which the importer conceded to be due. The controversy depends on the proper construction of parts of the tariff act of March 3, 1883, c. 120, 22 Stat. 487, which was in force at the time of importation. On the trial of the case two witnesses were examined, one the importer, in his own behalf, the other a witness on behalf of the government. The testimony of the importer was, substantially, to the effect that the rugs in question were not pieces of carpet or rugs made from pieces of carpet, but were rugs woven as such; that they were of various sizes, viz., thirty-six inches long by eighteen wide, thirty-six inches long by thirty-six inches wide, fifty-four inches long by twenty-seven inches wide, sixty-three inches long by thirty-six inches wide, or seventy-two inches long by forty-four inches wide. The differences between Wilton carpet and the rugs, as to mode of manufacture, as to material used, and when completed, were stated thus: The rugs were made upon a loom of six frames, whilst Wilton carpet was made upon one of five or less, so that looms fitted for making the rugs were unsuited for making Wilton carpet. The material used in the weft of the rugs was Statement of the Case. different from that which was used in a Wilton carpet, and the worsted in one was also of a different quality from that used in the other. The rugs in question, he said, were woven with cotton backs, in order to make them soft, whilst Wilton carpet was woven with a jute and linen back. The design of Wilton carpet and that of the rugs were also stated to be entirely different, the one being made to match various lengths, the other being one pattern for the entire rug. He testified that the rugs were sold by the rug, and not by the yard, and were called Wilton-Daghestan rugs, because they were “a plush fabric." He described a plush fabric as one wherein the worsted in weaving was cut with a knife, so as to leave a plush surface, and declared that Saxony, Axminster, Moquette velvet, and tapestry velvet carpets were also plush fabrics, because their threads were cut so as to make the surfaces like plush. In this sense there was a similarity between the rugs in question and Wilton carpet, that is, they were both plush fabrics, although in other respects there existed the differences already recited. The witness, moreover, said that the name given to the articles "Wilton-Daghestan rugs," in no way indicated that they were made from Wilton carpet, but simply signified that they were a plush fabric. There were two exhibits in the case which were shown the witness, one a sample of the rugs in question, and the other a rug or "bedside," made from a piece of Wilton carpet; he indicated in these the differences above pointed out, and also stated the general similarity which they bore to each other by reason of their being both "plush fabrics." The witness for the government, after giving his experience in the carpet trade, stated that articles like those imported were known to the trade as "Wilton rugs." He added: "A Wilton is a Brussels carpet cut. It is a plush carpet more correctly speaking." On the close of the testimony, counsel for plaintiff moved the court to direct a verdict in his favor, "there seeming to be no material dispute on any point in the case." Counsel for defendant also asked the court "to direct a verdict for defendant on the whole case." The court thereupon directed Opinion of the Court. the jury to find a verdict for defendant. To this instruction. exception was taken and allowed, and the case was thereupon brought here by error. The bill of exceptions contains all the evidence. The opinion of the court below is reported in 48 Fed. Rep. 147. Mr. Edwin B. Smith for plaintiff in error. Mr. Assistant Attorney General Whitney for defendant in error. MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. The contention is advanced that as each party below requested the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict in his favor, this was equivalent to a stipulation waiving a jury and submitting the case to decision of the court. From this premise two conclusions are deduced; first, that, there being no written stipulation, the decision below cannot be reviewed upon writ of error; second, that, even if the request in open court, made by both parties, be treated as a written stipulation, the correctness of the decision below cannot be examined, because it is in the form of a general finding on the whole case, and findings of the court upon the evidence are reviewable only when they are special. The request, made to the court by each party to instruct the jury to render a verdict in his fayor, was not equivalent to a submission of the case to the court, without the intervention of a jury, within the intendment of Rev. Stat. §§ 649, 700. As, however, both parties asked the court to instruct a verdict, both affirmed that there was no disputed question of fact which could operate to deflect or control the question of law. This was necessarily a request that the court find the facts, and the parties are, therefore, concluded by the finding made by the court, upon which the resulting instruction of law was given. The facts having been thus submitted to the court, we are limited in reviewing its action, to the consideration of the correctness of the finding on the law, and must affirm if Opinion of the Court. there be any evidence in support thereof. Lehnen v. Dickson, 148 U. S. 71; Runkle v. Burnham, 153 U. S. 216. There was obviously no disputed question of fact. The plaintiff introduced proof tending to show that the rugs had been woven as rugs on a loom prepared for that purpose, and which was therefore not suitable for weaving carpeting; that they contained materials used in making rugs which were not the kind or quality of materials used in making carpets; that their size, shape, pattern, back, and other qualities made them distinctly rugs eo nomine as distinguished from rugs made "from portions of carpet or carpeting." From this evidence was deduced the conclusion of law that they were dutiable as rugs at 40 per cent ad valorem. Defendant's testimony tended to show that the rugs were called Wilton rugs, were a plush fabric, (which was not traversed by the plaintiff's testimony,) and hence were of a "like character and description" with Wilton carpet. Upon these facts the defendant based his claim that as matter of law they were dutiable at the rate imposed on such carpets. From this undisputed evidence, then, arose the legal question whether rugs of the kind stated, not being "portions of carpet or carpeting," were taxable as Wilton carpets, because they were of like character or description, that is, because they were plush fabrics. Wilton carpets were also a plush fabric. The correctness of the ruling below depends upon an interpretation of the language of the statute which we quote: "Saxony, Wilton, and Tournay velvet carpets forty-five cents a square yard, and in addition thereto 30 per centum ad valorem. Carpets and carpetings of wool, flax, or cotton, or parts of either, or other material not otherwise herein. specified, 40 per centum ad valorem; and mats, rugs, screens, covers, hassocks, bedsides, and other portions of carpets and carpetings shall be subjected to the rate of duty herein imposed on carpets or carpeting of like character or description; and the duty on all other mats not exclusively of vegetable material, screens, hassocks, and rugs shall be forty per centum ad valorem." 22 Stat. 509, 510. It is clear that rugs in the generic sense are specifically |