General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. United States

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for Massachusetts, sustaining a libel of information brought by the United States to enforce the forfeiture of a Buick automobile. As the proceeding is an action at law, in which an appeal does not lie, we treat it as though the case were here on writ of error. 43 Stat. 941, § 10 (28 USCA § 861; Comp. St. § 1649b).

The libel charges that on or about the 13th day of November, 1926, the automobile was duly seized at Dennisport, in said district, by an officer of the United States Coast Guard as forfeited to the United…