Central Consumers' Co. v. James
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Petition of the General Consumers’ Company against E. H. James, United States Marshal, for restoration of property.
1Opinion of the Court
WALTER EVANS, District Judge.
The plaintiff has asked for the restoration to it of the very large amount and variety of property which the defendant, acting in his official capacity, seized under a search warrant issued and placed in his hands by J. A. Craft, the United States commissioner here. The United States district attorney has moved to dismiss the claimant’s petition, and thereby has been raised several important questions of law; no objection being made to the form of the proceeding.
On January 5, 1922, E. L. Hansbrough, federal prohibition agent (hereinafter called the agent),…
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