UNITED STATES v. 2,180 CASES OF CHAMPAGNE, ETC.


4 F.2d 735 (1925)

UNITED STATES v. 2,180 CASES OF CHAMPAGNE AND OTHER INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

District Court, E. D. New York.

March 4, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph C. Greene, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Howard Osterhout, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Mineola, N. Y., of counsel), for libelant.

Kirlin, Woolsey, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City (Cletus Keating and Delbert M. Tibbetts, both of New York City, of counsel), for claimant.

Pelham St. George Bissell, of New York City, amicus curiæ.


GARVIN, District Judge.

The government has brought an action in rem seeking to forfeit a cargo of intoxicating liquors found on the auxiliary schooner Zeehond, which was taken into custody by the captain of the Seminole on December 7, 1923, and towed into the port of New York, charged with a violation of section 592 of the Tariff Act of 1922 (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 5841h11).

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