Rudd v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. John F. Rudd was convicted of using the mails to defraud, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
Rudd was convicted of using the mails in aid of a scheme to defraud, contrary to section 5480 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696). He had been associated with others in selling county rights to handle a machine for which one of them had secured a patent, and to facilitate the business they were engaged in they sent through the mails circulars and other communications containing alluring representations which the government charged and the evidence showed quite clearly were contrary to well-known fundamental physical laws. The machine was designed as an…
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