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UNITED STATES v. PETER

Civ. A. No. 8446.

178 F.Supp. 854 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Mrs. Theodore PETER, Ernest R. Baron, Stanley A. Baron, Mrs. Hazel Baron, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cleland, Mrs. Rosa Fauntleroy, John H. Lemmon and/or Lemmon's Mattress Works, Estate of Emily Baron, and John Doe, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

November 27, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd C. Melancon, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for the United States.

Stanley A. Baron, New Orleans, La., for Mrs. Theodore Peter, Ernest R. Baron, Mrs. Hazel Baron, the Estate of Emily Baron and S. A. Baron.

Guy L. Deano, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cleland.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

The setting of this drama is the Lemmon Mattress Works, Hammond, Louisiana. Miss Emily Baron, a local recluse, died in 1957 at the age of 82. A year later her mattress, after being locked up in her room since her death, is sold and sent to the Mattress Works for renovation. After the mattress ticking is removed and the cotton contents processed through the chopping machine, they are placed in the deodorizer box. There the cotton is...

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