Keefe v. Clark

MORTON, District Judge.

These two cases were heard together. The first is a petition for the return of intoxicating liquors alleged to have been illegally seized; the second, a petition under the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. 305) for the forfeiture of the same liquors. In the latter case a claim was filed by Cornelius Keefe as owner. He having become bankrupt pending these proceedings, his trustees have appeared and maintain his petition and his claim. The facts are as follows:

For many years preceding the matters here in question Keefe had owned a building on Dartmouth street, Boston, of…