Fraternal Order of Eagles, No. 778 v. United States

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court enjoining the appellants from manufacturing, selling, or storing intoxicating liquor on their lodge property for one year and closing it for the same period. The decree provided, however, that, at the end of three months from the date thereof, the premises might be opened and used in a lawful manner on condition that a bond bo filed in the sum of $1,000.

On November 19,1930, prohibition agents were admitted to the lodge: ooms of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at New Kensington, Pa., on the representation that they were…