United States v. Ball

PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.

This was a civil action tried at the-May term, 1905, of the United States Circuit Court at Wilkesboro. The United States brought suit against the defendants, upon the distiller’s bond of William T. Ball, upon which William T. Ball was principal, and Thomas W. Collins and Squire M. Dickerson were sureties. The breach of the bond complained of was the failure of the said Ball to comply with the provisions of the law, in that he refused to pay an internal revenue tax assessed against him to the amount of $89.70 for spirits produced by said Ball during the months of…