United States v. Turner

SWAYNE, Circuit Justice.

This ease was heard upon bill-brought to subject a distillery in Greenville, Ohio, to payment of tax upon whiskey claimed to be a lien thereon. The tax accrued in February, 1867, while the Turners, then owning, were operating the distillery. It was, in the same month, removed upon transportation bonds, but was, without the payment of tax, sold in the markets. Suits were begun in September, 1S67, upon the bonds, and judgment recovered thereon in March and April, 1S71, for the aggregate sum of $31,533.26. In June, 1867, the Turners sold their distillery, and in April,…