UNITED STATES v. FERGER (NO. 2.)

No. 777.

250 U.S. 207 (1919)

UNITED STATES v. FERGER ET AL. (NO. 2).

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Brown, with whom Mr. Charles H. Weston was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Mr. John C. Hermann and Mr. Sherman T. McPherson were on the brief, for defendants in error.

Mr. Francis B. James, by leave of court, filed a brief on behalf of the National Industrial Traffic League, as amicus curioe.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is disposed of by the ruling just announced in No. 776, ante, 199. The indictment here was for conspiring to do the various acts charged in the previous case, that is, the fraudulent fabrication and uttering of the same fictitious bills of lading and the obtaining of money thereon by delivering the same to the Second National Bank of Cincinnati as collateral. The demurrer which was sustained...

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