Perlman v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM AND ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Appeal and error to review an order denying petition of Perlman to restrain and enjoin the United States attorney for the Sputhern District of New York from taking into his possession or custody certain exhibits which had been impounded and deposited by order of the district court for that district with the clerk of the coiirt.
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APPEAL FROM AND ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Appeal and error to review an order denying petition of Perlman to restrain and enjoin the United States attorney for the Sputhern District of New York from taking into his possession or custody certain exhibits which had been impounded and deposited by order of the district court for that district with the clerk of the coiirt. In support of the relief prayed Perlman alleges the following facts, which we state narratively: He is the inventor of a device known in the market as a demountable…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice McKenna,
after stating the case as above, delivered the. opinion of the court.
The United States makes a ’motion to dismiss on the following grounds:
“1. Appellant has no interest in the subject matter of. and is not a party to the equity suit out of which the appeal arises;.
“ 2. The order of the District Court if considered as a part of the criminal proceeding is not final; but merely interlocutory, and therefore not reviewable by this court.”
■ We think the motion should be overruled. Referring , to the impounding order it will be seen that the Governmenttwas not one of those for…
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