Goo Yee v. Rosenberg

DISSENTING OPINION OP

ROBERTSON, C.J.

I think there is nothing to be gained by a re-trial of this case. The essential facts of the case are uncontradicted and either the plaintiff or the defendant should have judgment according to what the law is as applied to those facts. The story is a simple one. The defendant informed the United States district attorney that a Chinaman had expressed a desire to buy somfe-opium. The district attorney furnished the defendant three tins of contraband opium to sell to the plaintiff in order that he might be caught and arrested upon a charge of violating the…