United States v. One Blue Taffeta Evening Coat
District Court, S.D. New York
Rib el of forfeiture by the United States against One Blue Taffeta Evening Coat, etc.; Charlotte A. Warren, Evelyn Byrd Burden, and Gwendolyn Dows, claimants. On exceptions to libel. This cause comes up on exceptions to a libel of forfeiture against certain wearing apparel brought by the claimant, Charlotte A. Warren, from France to this country on the 10th day of November, 1915, on the steamship Espagne.
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Rib el of forfeiture by the United States against One Blue Taffeta Evening Coat, etc.; Charlotte A. Warren, Evelyn Byrd Burden, and Gwendolyn Dows, claimants. On exceptions to libel. This cause comes up on exceptions to a libel of forfeiture against certain wearing apparel brought by the claimant, Charlotte A. Warren, from France to this country on the 10th day of November, 1915, on the steamship Espagne. Such wearing apparel"is divided in the libel into six groups, (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), of which groups (b), (e), and (f) are the property of the claimants Burden and Dows, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtEearned Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This is the same libel of forfeiture which I considered before, and which has since been amended. As to the first cause of forfeiture, the claimant craves oyer of the baggage declaration, insisting that, if produced, it will appear that the imported articles were mentioned. As to the second and fourth causes of forfeiture, the claimant Warren insists that the articles in question were part of her personal baggage, brought with her into the country on her arrival. As such she says that they do not fall within the Customs Administrative Act, and that the…
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