United States v. One Oldsmobile Sedan

WRIGHT, District Judge.

The libel of the United States charges that the 1949 Oldsmobile was used to facilitate the transportation and sale of marihuana in violation of 49 U.S.C.A. § 781 and that therefore said vehicle should be forfeited to the United States under 49 U.S.C.A. § 782. The intervenor, Associates-Discount Corporation, having obtained a mortgage on the vehicle in good faith and without knowledge of any criminal activity on the part of the owner, asks that the libel be dismissed and the vehicle released to it. The issues of fact and law having come on to be heard on the pleadings…