The Good Templar
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Proceeding in admiralty to enforce forfeiture of a vessel engaged in domestic commerce for violation of her license.
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
This was a proceeding under Rev. St. § 4377, for the forfeiture of the schooner Good Templar and its cargo of fish. If a considerable part of the cargo was known by the claimant to be smuggled, it was conceded that the vessel is liable to forfeiture under that section. The Resolution, 2 Gall. 47, Fed. Cas. No. 11,709. The libelant contended: (1) That, after probable cause bad been shown for the prosecution, the burden of proving that the goods were not smuggled lay upon the claimant, by virtue of Rev. St. § .909; and (2) that, if this section was held inapplicable to…
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