United States v. Humberd

McDERMOTT, District Judge.

The intervener is a company engaged in buying paper from automobile dealers. The facts are that the automobile dealer, the Kritzler Motor Company, sold a Reo car to one Humberd, a bootlegger of parts, and offered the paper to the intervener, who declined to buy it because of Humberd’s reputation. Being advised of that fact, and reluctant to lose the sale, the dealer, through a salesman, sold the car again to Humberd, but had the papers made out in the name of one Smith, a brother-in-law of Humberd. Smith did not enjoy the reputation of Humberd; the intervener had no…