UNITED STATES v. CHEVROLET TRUCK

Nos. 9177, 9178.

30 F.2d 830 (1929)

UNITED STATES v. CHEVROLET TRUCK, MOTOR NO. 3802777. SAME v. CHEVROLET COUPÉ, MOTOR NO. 3633079.

District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

February 23, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Fitzgerald, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Detroit, Mich., for the United States.

Dykema, Jones & Wheat, of Detroit, Mich. (Benjamin J. Manley, of Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for libelee.


SIMONS, District Judge.

The stipulation of facts in the above causes discloses that the two motor vehicles sought to be condemned each contained assorted liquor upon which no tax had been paid, each car was abandoned by the driver upon the approach of officers, and in neither case was there an arrest or prosecution. The question presented in the two cases is identical. Is the government to be permitted to forfeit the vehicles in which nontax-paid liquor was being...

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