Sam Rubin v. United States

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment under 22 U.S.C.A. § 401, as amended August 13, 1953, 67 Stat. 577, 1 forfeiting and condemning to the United States two Douglas B-26 airplanes.

The libel alleged that the two airplanes, of which Sam Rubin claimed to be the owner, were seized by agents of the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department; that these planes were munitions and implements of war, as defined in regulations promulgated by the Secretary of State; that at the times and places of the seizures the agents who seized the planes had probable cause to believe that said airplanes…