United States v. Certain Property

By Court,

Titus, C. J.:

This proceeding wras instituted July 29, 1871, by petition and information, in the district court of the first judicial district of Arizona, for the condemnation of certain merchandise, therein described, alleged to have been forfeited and seized as such, June 20, 1871, near the reservation of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, by Capt. Frederick E. Grossman, special Indian agent, on a charge of illegal traffic with the said Indians.

On the twenty-first of October last, William Birchard & Co. w'ere, on their petition and claim as sole owners, permitted to defend the said…