Legal Opinion
United States v. Housing Foundation of America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 11, 1949No. 9712, 9737PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.
The appellant Westfield, the corporate defendant and one T. William Smith were convicted of using the mails to defraud. 18 U.S.C.A. § 338 [now § 1341]. That there was ample evidence to sustain the conviction, there is not the slightest doubt. The recital of the events surrounding the venture sounds like one of the stories concerning J. Rufus Walling-ford, current in popular fiction a number of years ago. There is testimony which, if believed (and one could hardly help believing most of it) indicated that defendant Westfield came into Wilkes-Barre, Pa., with no money…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Counselman v. HitchcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Parker v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1946
- United States v. SprengelCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1939
3Cited by52 opinions
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- United States v. KennyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1972
- United States v. John W. Sliker, John Carbone, and Theodore Buchwald, A/K/A "Bucky," DefendantsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1985
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