State v. Intoxicating Liquors
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On October 22, 1918, at the inward freight shed of the Maine Central Railroad Company, at Bangor, Maine, the sheriff of Penobscot County, seized ninety-one eases of Scotch whiskey. The liquor was duly libelled. William G. McAdoo, as Federal Director General of Railroads, operating the Maine Central Railroad, through counsel appeared as claimant. Claim was duly filed and the liquors were ordered forfeited to the State.
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On October 22, 1918, at the inward freight shed of the Maine Central Railroad Company, at Bangor, Maine, the sheriff of Penobscot County, seized ninety-one eases of Scotch whiskey. The liquor was duly libelled. William G. McAdoo, as Federal Director General of Railroads, operating the Maine Central Railroad, through counsel appeared as claimant. Claim was duly filed and the liquors were ordered forfeited to the State. An appeal was taken by the claimant to the Supreme Judicial Court, and the case thence went to the Law Court on an agreed statement of facts. Case stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
The general outline of this case is as follows: Ninety-one cases of Scotch whiskey were seized at Bangor on October 22, 1918, at the inward freight shed of the Maine Central Railroad Company by the sheriff of Penobscot County. The liquors were duly libelled and claim was filed by James E. Gibbons, the freight agent of the company at Bangor, for and in behalf of William G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads, then operating the railroads of the country under a Proclamation of the President of the United States dated December 26, 1917, and the act of Congress of March 21, 1918. Hearing was…
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