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PARMELEE v. UNITED STATES

No. 7332.

113 F.2d 729 (1940)

PARMELEE v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund D. Campbell, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David A. Pine, U. S. Atty., and H. L. Underwood and John L. Laskey, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and VINSON, Associate Justices.

MILLER, Associate Justice.

The Collector of Customs at the Port of Washington, in the District of Columbia, seized six books, entitled "Nudism in Modern Life," which had been imported by Maurice Parmelee via the mails, from England. The United States Attorney filed a libel in the court below seeking the confiscation and destruction of the books. The court determined that they were properly subject to libel and should be destroyed. The applicable statute,

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