CROWNINSHIELD SHIPBUILDING CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 2558.

54 F.2d 879 (1932)

CROWNINSHIELD SHIPBUILDING CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 5, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel T. Hagan, of Providence, R. I. (John H. Di Stefano, of Providence, R. I., and Louis Halle, of New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Charles H. Eden, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Providence, R. I. (Henry M. Boss, Jr., U. S. Atty., of Providence, R. I., on the brief), for the United States.

Before BINGHAM and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and MORRIS, District Judge.


MORRIS, District Judge.

This is an intervening petition filed by the Crowninshield Shipbuilding Company, a Rhode Island corporation, in a libel for the forfeiture of the American gas screw yacht Mardelle. Forfeiture was sought by the United States under provisions of title 2, § 26, of the National Prohibition Act (USCA title 27, § 40). At the trial before the District Court, the owner or owners did not appear, and judgment of forfeiture was entered by default...

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