Hartwig v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

On August 31, 1926, the auxiliary schooner Chiquita, with a cargo of intoxicating liquor, was seized in the Gulf of Mexico, about 35 miles off the Louisiana coast, by a Coast Guard cutter, and brought into New Orleans. She was flying the Honduran flag, and had on board the usual ship’s papers, among them a patent, dated May 19, 1926, indicating her temporary Honduran registry and clearance papers as such vessel from Havana, Cuba, to Truxillo, Honduras. A libel of information was filed by the United States attorney, alleging her to be an American vessel, and seeking her…