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THE CHIQUITA

No. 4976.

19 F.2d 417 (1927)

THE CHIQUITA. HARTWIG v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 6, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. J. Gex, of Bay St. Louis, Miss., and William B. Grant, of New Orleans, La. (Gex & Russell, of Gulfport, Miss., on the brief), for appellant.

Wayne G. Borah, U. S. Atty., and Edmond E. Talbot, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of New Orleans, La.

Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

On August 31, 1926, the auxiliary schooner Chiquita, with a cargo of intoxicating liquor, was seized in the Gulf of Mexico, about 35 miles off the Louisiana coast, by a Coast Guard cutter, and brought into New Orleans. She was flying the Honduran flag, and had on board the usual ship's papers, among them a patent, dated May 19, 1926, indicating her temporary Honduran registry and clearance papers as such vessel from Havana, Cuba, to Truxillo...

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