UNITED STATES v. GILBERT

No. 9910.

126 F.2d 206 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. GILBERT. THE NASSAU CLIPPER.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 24, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold B. Finn and Sidney J. Kaplan, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Frank Staley, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C., Herbert S. Phillips, U. S. Atty., of Tampa, Fla., and Wm. A. Paisley, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Jacksonville, Fla., for appellant.

J. W. Harrell, of Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

A libel was brought by the United States against the Gas Screw "Nassau Clipper", to forfeit her under 46 U.S.C.A. § 60. The ground for forfeiture alleged was that M. L. Gilbert did execute an oath for enrollment and license of said vessel, a copy of which was exhibited, and did swear therein that the vessel was wholly the property of a citizen of the United States, to-wit, said M. L. Gilbert of...

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