Kelton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania; W. H. Seward Thomson, Judge. William A. Kelton and others were found guilty of contempt, and bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODLEY, Circuit Judge.
On petition of William A. Kelton, _ Group Bead of Federal Prohibition Agents at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the District Court ordered the destruction of about two thousand barrels of beer and the sale of the cdntainers. The beer had been seized under the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 10138% et seq.) and stored in warehouses of the Standard Ice & Storage Company and the Allen Storage Company..
Instead of first destroying the beer and then selling the containers in compliance with the manifest purport of the order, Kelton sold the containers when…
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