Kohler Co. v. United States

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

The Elk Breeding & Grazing Association, Inc., procured from the claimant by conditional sale an independent electric lighting plant, which was installed in an outbuilding on the farm owned by the association, which was there carrying on the business of raising and selling elk. Coneededly, the Kohler Company is an innocent owner of a plant furnished by it for the purpose of generating electricity to supply light and power for legitimate purposes. But this plant was by wire connected with another building, where illegal stills were being operated, and used to furnish…