Harrison v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio; Howard C. Hollister, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against William P. Harrison. From a judgment of conviction, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
Harrison (respondent below) was engaged in manufacturing and selling, at Cincinnati, various household articles. The business was of large volume and long standing. Among the articles so being manufactured and sold, in the spring of 1910, were a vacuum cleaning device known as the “New Home Vacuum Cleaner,” and a washing machine called the “Easy Way Washer.” Sales of these were promoted by sending through the mails advertisements and correspondence. In December, 1910, Harrison was prosecuted under two separate indictments for using the mails in a scheme or artifice to…
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