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DEAN & CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 12405.

171 F.2d 468 (1948)

W. E. DEAN & CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 14, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James McCollum Burnett and Eugene C. Williams, both of San Antonio, Tex., for appellant.

Henry W. Moursund, U. S. Atty., and Joel W. Westbrook, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Antonio, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The libel was for the forfeiture1 of an automobile seized for the transportation of contraband, to-wit: heroin. W. E. Dean and Company, an automobile financing company, denying that the automobile was forfeit and contesting the forfeiture, filed claim to the car as a good faith lienor. The evidence was brief and uncontested.

The United States had one witness, Johnson, the narcotic agent who had found the...

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