Commonwealth v. One Ford Truck

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

The district attorney for Philadelphia County instituted a proceeding under the act of assembly, approved the 27th day of March, A. D. 1923, P. L. 34, for the forfeiture and condemnation of the defendant truck, on the ground that it was being used on September 27,1923, for the transportation of intoxicating liquor in violation, of that act. Edson and Company, appellants, filed an answer admitting that at the time of the seizure of the truck it contained five barrels of alcohol, denying that the liquor was being transported, and averring that they became the owners of…