Legal Opinion
United States v. Federal Mail Order Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 12, 1931No. 153PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The defendants are three persons engaged in the sale of Swiss watches at an office or depot on Broadway, New York, under the name of the Federal Mail Order Corporation and Superfine Watch Company. In September, 1929; suspecting that they had been smuggling Swiss watches and watch movements, a customs agent procured a search warrant on which he searched this office, and seized all the Swiss watches which he found. The defendants moved to quash the warrant and succeeded in the District Court. Thereupon the customs agent took out another warrant which was again quashed,…
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- The Distilled SpiritsSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
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