STEPHENS v. UNITED STATES

No. 5293.

30 F.2d 286 (1929)

STEPHENS et al. v. UNITED STATES. THE F. H. RUSSELL.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 24, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter J. Gex, of Bay St. Louis, Miss., and Wm. B. Grant, of New Orleans, La. (Gex & Russell, of Bay St. Louis, Miss., on the brief), for appellants.

Alex C. Birch, U. S. Atty., and J. E. Meredith, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Mobile, Ala.

Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The American gas motorboat F. H. Russell was decreed to be forfeited under a libel which contained allegations to the following effect:

On the application of the owner of said vessel the deputy collector of customs of the port of Biloxi, on March 17, 1924, allotted and assigned to that vessel the number A-829, she then being a vessel of less than 5 net tons. On September 3, 1927, the Coast Guard...

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