Mosehart & Keller Automobile Co. v. United States

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

An automobile was forfeited upon a libel under 19 USCA §§ 482, 483, charging that unlawfully imported morphine had been transported on and about it, notwithstanding the intervention of appellant who bona fide held a purchase-money claim against the automobile. The facts as agreed and as found by the court are that one Mesehi who had bought the car from appellant was engaged at Houston, Tex., a port, in purchasing and peddling illicit morphine and had it stored in a house there. On a telephone order from an addict he placed an ounce of morphine in the automobile and…