Legal Opinion
The Harbour Trader
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 30, 1930No. 358PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The British ship, Harbour Trader, was seized by the United States Coast Guard in December, 1928, about 2% miles south of East Rockaway Inlet, in the Eastern district of New York, with a eargo of intoxicating liquor on board. Pour members of the crew were arrested and charged with possession and transportation of the liquor in violation of the National Prohibition Act tit. 2, §§ 3, 26 (27 USCA §§12 and 40). To this charge they pleaded guilty and were sentenced. The liquor was not then ordered destroyed or the vessel ordered sold. Thereafter a libel for forfeiture of the…
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