GROGAN v. HIRAM WALKER & SONS, LTD.

Nos. 615, 639.

259 U.S. 80 (1922)

GROGAN, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, ET AL. v. HIRAM WALKER & SONS, LTD. ANCHOR LINE (HENDERSON BROTHERS), LTD. v. ALDRIDGE, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE PORT OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 15, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Goff, with whom Mr. Abram F. Myers, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellants in No. 615 and appellee in No. 639.

Mr. Alfred Lucking for appellee in No. 615.

Mr. Lucius H. Beers, with whom Mr. Franklin B. Lord and Mr. Allen Evarts Foster were on the brief, for appellant in No. 639.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases raise the question whether the Constitution and the Volstead Act prohibit the transportation of intoxicating liquors from a foreign port through some part of the United States to another foreign port. The first is a bill by a corporation of Canada against the Collector of Customs and the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eastern District of Michigan to...

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