Legal Opinion
Rasmussen v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 23, 1925No. 4670PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
Defendants and one Bigelow were convicted of having devised and intended to devise 'a scheme and artifice to defraud certain persons and others unknown and using the mail for the purT pose of executing the scheme. Section 215, Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10385).
The charge was that defendants were to organize associations known ¿s 66 Oil Syndicate and 44 Oil Syndicate of Seattle, for the purpose of selling units or shares in such organizations to the persons named and referred to in the indictment. Defendants were to represent that the syndicates were formed to drill for oil in…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Knickerbocker Life Insurance v. PendletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
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- Buessel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1919
- Taylor-Craig Corp. v. HageCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1895
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Stephens v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1930
- Chevillard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1946
- E. K. Wood Lumber Co. v. AndersenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1936
- Conway v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1944
- McElheny v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1944
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