Rettig Beverage Co. v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The main question raised on this appeal’is whether, in deciding a case of this kind, the court is governed by the rule of evidence which is applied in law cases or the rule applied in equity eases. The question is difficult to state understandingly before the pleadings and the facts of the ease and the substance of the decision are given.

*741The Pleadings.

The United States filed a bill in equity under section 22, tit. 2, of the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. Ami. Supp. 1923, § 10138%k), charging the respondent corporation and its officers with maintaining on its…