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UNITED STATES v. ONE FORD COACH

No. 10.

307 U.S. 219 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. ONE 1936 MODEL FORD V-8 DE LUXE COACH, COMMERCIAL CREDIT COMPANY, CLAIMANT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 22, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gordon Dean, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, Assistant Attorney General McMahon, and Messrs. Mahlon D. Kiefer and W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, on the reargument and on the original argument in No. 10, and on the argument in No. 627, for the United States.

Messrs. Duane R. Dills and Eugene E. Heaton, on the reargument and on the original argument, for Commercial Credit Co., claimant in No. 10. Mr. Duane R. Dills argued the cause, and Mr. James F. Kemp was on a brief, for respondent in No. 627.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In each of these causes the District Court, proceeding under the "Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act" of August 27, 1935 (c. 740, 49 Stat. 872, 878, Title 27 U.S.C. § 40a), mitigated the forfeiture of an automobile seized for unlawful transportation of distilled spirits upon which the federal tax had not been paid. (One was seized December 3, 1936; the other...

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