W. E. Dean & Co. v. United States

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The libel was for the forfeiture1 of an automobile seized for the transportation of contraband, to-wit: heroin. W. E.

Dean and Company, an automobile financing company, denying that the automobile was forfeit and contesting the forfeiture, filed claim to the car as a good faith lienor. The evidence was brief and uncontested.

The United States had one witness, Johnson, the narcotic agent who had found the heroin in the car. On direct examination he testified that, having reliable information that contraband, to-wit, heroin, would be transported in the car, he and another…