Pocahontas Distilling Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Libel by the United States against the Pocahontas Distilling Company, Incorporated. Judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
On July 17, 1913, the United States filed a libel of information against grain distillery No. 2, of the Pocahontas Distilling Company, which is located on the outskirts, but within the corporate limits, of the city of Petersburg, Va. It appears that this distillery had been under suspicion for some time, and closely watched by certain revenue officers, who, on the 14th of June, discovered that a so-called “slop, tank,” located outside of and on a line with the second *783floor of the distillery building, was full of beer in a state of active fermentation. After measuring the…
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