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United States v. Two Hundred & Sixty-Seven Twenty-Dollar Gold Pieces

District Court, W.D. Washington

Decided January 23, 1919No. Nos. 4233, 4250PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Forfeiture under Espionage Act. Libels by the^ United States against Two Hundred and Sixty-Seven Twenty-Dollar Gold Pieces, coin of the United States, and against One McLaughlin Automobile, No. 438020. On exceptions to libels by Lauretta M. Lesage, claimant.

1Opinion of the Court

NETERER, District Judge.

Two libels are filed, one against 267 $20 gold pieces, and one against one McLaughlin automobile. • The same facts are alleged with relation to both cases. The cases were presented together. In substance, it is contended by the libelant that the automobile was owned and operated by Lesage on August 30, 1918, and that by the use of said automobile, he did willfully and feloniously attempt to export out of the United States at the port of ■Blaine, Wash., into the province of British Columbia, the gold pieces, coin of the United States, without having first made…

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