VAN CAMP SEA FOOD CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 5772.

82 F.2d 365 (1936)

VAN CAMP SEA FOOD CO., Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

February 11, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. D. Montgomery, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Breed, Abbott & Morgan, of New York City (Wm. L. Hanaway, of New York City, and H. D. Montgomery, of Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel), for appellant.

H. Horatio S. Dumbauld, U. S. Atty., and D. Lloyd Claycomb, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Before BUFFINGTON, DAVIS, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This case, a libel by the government to forfeit, is one of grave concern, in that it not alone involves the destruction of a very large quantity of food, but, what is of more importance, it involves also the future of the appellant's extensive business and is a condemnation of the fish inspection of the state of California. Where the drastic remedy of forfeiture by the government of the citizen's property was sought, the late Judge McPherson...

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