Murdock Acceptance Corporation v. United States

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

After careful consideration, we find ourselves in agreement with the excellent opinion of the district court reported in 121 F.Supp. 265 et seq.

Admittedly the purchaser did have both a record and a reputation for violating laws of the State of Mississippi relating to liquor. That being true, a statutory condition precedent to remission or mitigation of forfeiture was that one or more of the designated authorities, in answering the claimant’s inquiry, should have informed claimant that the purchaser had no such record or reputation, 18 U.S.C.A. § 3617(b). The answer from…