United States v. One Still
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
This was an information against certain personal property seized for a violation of the internal revenue laws. The property consisted of two stills and their appurtenances and some whiskey, and also of a dwelling-house and a lager beer saloon and a brewery and its appurtenances, the whole being enclosed in one enclosure by a high board fence. The stills and their appurtenancés and the whiskey were condemned by default.
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This was an information against certain personal property seized for a violation of the internal revenue laws. The property consisted of two stills and their appurtenances and some whiskey, and also of a dwelling-house and a lager beer saloon and a brewery and its appurtenances, the whole being enclosed in one enclosure by a high board fence. The stills and their appurtenancés and the whiskey were condemned by default. On a trial as to the orewery and its appurtenances, a verdict was rendered for the government, and the claimant n^w moved for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The seizure, in this case, was made during the night of the 13th of January, 1867. Barrels of whiskey were found in several of the different rooms or apartments of the buildings on the premises, including the brewery. One of the stills, a copper one, was in operation, and the other, a wooden one, in an upper loft, had recently stopped, as was apparent from the heat of it. This last was heated by the same engine and boiler that were used to supply steam to the brewery, and the engine and boiler occupied a part of the same room in which was the copper still that was in…
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