Legal Opinion
The Felicia
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 24, 1936No. 3018Published
1Opinion of the Court
BYERS, District Judge.
On August 18, 1933, the power yacht Felicia was proceeding westerly in the easterly end of Long Island Sound or in the westerly end of Block Island Sound, on a course which would take her into New York; when about one and one-half miles N.N.E. of Little Gull Light, she was sighted by a vessel of the Coast Guard, which was under orders to intercept her. In response to a signal to heave to, the yacht stopped, and was boarded by an officer from the government vessel. Search disclosed some 1,820 cases of intoxicating liquor in burlap sacks, the bottles being labeled so as to…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- United States v. 1,250 Cases of Intoxicating LiquorsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
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