United States v. The City of Mexico

This cause having been heard, and a decree of forfeiture pronounced under the law for the prevention of the violation of neutrality, (Rev. St. § 5283; 28 Fed. Rep. 148,) it remained to designate the informer to whose use the one-half of the proceeds should go.

The hearing of the original case, and the evidence presented at it, pointed out who might with good reason be considered the informer; but the question whether there might not be some one else who, upon a fuller hearing of the origin of the case, might have some rights, suggested itself, and the matter was held under advisement, and an…