United States v. One Blue Taffeta Evening Coat, Trimmed Lace, & Other Women's Clothing
District Court, S.D. New York
Libel by the United States to forfeit One Blue Taffeta Evening Coat, Trimmed Lace, and Other Women’s Clothing. On exceptions by the claimants for insufficiency of the libel. This is a libel of information to forfeit certain clothing brought into the port of New York on December 10, 1915, from the republic of France, by the claimant, Charlotte A. Warren, and seized by the collector.
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Libel by the United States to forfeit One Blue Taffeta Evening Coat, Trimmed Lace, and Other Women’s Clothing. On exceptions by the claimants for insufficiency of the libel. This is a libel of information to forfeit certain clothing brought into the port of New York on December 10, 1915, from the republic of France, by the claimant, Charlotte A. Warren, and seized by the collector. The clothing is divided into six groups, marked respectively, “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” “E,” and “F,” and is charged to be subject to forfeiture by virtue of five counts, which are as follows: First Count. That said…
1Opinion of the CourtLearned Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] First Count. If groups C, D, E, and F were a part of the claimant Warren’s baggage, and were subject to duty, and were not mentioned to the collector when entered, they were, of course, forfeit., The first criticism is that in other counts it appears that groups E and F were imported for the claimants Burden and Dows. If groups E and F could not be at once in fact personal baggage and goods imported for the use of another (One Pearl Chain v. U. S., 123 Fed. 371, 374, 59 C. C. A. 499), still it is permissible to plead contradictory versions 'of the same…
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- One Pearl Chain v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1903
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