Hoover v. People

This was an information in the name of the People, in the nature of a libel under the initiated statute of November 5, 1918, to declare forfeit certain whisky and the automobile in which it was captured. The facts before this court are agreed on.

The plaintiffs in error, George Hoover and M. H. Richards, were partners operating a garage, automobile livery and taxicab business in Denver. They employed a number of chauffeurs, and owned and used the machine in question in that business. Ethel May Richards, plaintiff in error, and intervenor below, was a bona fide mortgagee of said automobile.…