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COOK v. UNITED STATES

No. 82.

288 U.S. 102 (1933)

COOK v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 23, 1933.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Joseph E. Fitzpatrick and Edmund M. Toland, with whom Mr. Mortimer W. Newton was on the brief, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Thacher, with whom Assistant Attorney General Youngquist and Messrs. Whitney North Seymour, A.W. Henderson, and W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The main question for decision is whether § 581 of the Tariff Act of 1930, c. 497, 46 Stat. 590, 747, is modified, as applied to British vessels suspected of being engaged in smuggling liquors into the United States, by the Treaty between this country and Great Britain proclaimed May 22, 1924. (43 Stat. 1761.) That section — which is a re-enactment in identical...

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