United States v. One Paige Automobile

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This case is a libel filed by the government to forfeit an automobile, liquor, and the bottles in which the liquor was contained, the skiff which transported them, and the pistols which were found in and about the skiff or on the persons of those concerned with the liquor. A conviction was had, and, there being no sufficient cause shown to the contrary by the owner of the vehicles, a judgment was entered in accordance with section 26 of title 2 of the Volstead Act (41 Stat. 315), forfeiting and condemning the vehicles, and establishing as valid a lien asserted…