United States v. One 1954 Model Ford Victoria Automobile, Motor No. U4NV 153435

GILLIAM, District Judge.

This cause came on to be heard before the undersigned United States District Judge at Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 21, 1955, upon the Libel of Information filed herein on April 8, 1955, and the petition for mitigation of forfeiture filed by the- Henry Vann Company, Inc., of Clinton, North Carolina, intervenor-claimant, on May 9, 1955.

We find from the evidence produced at the above mentioned hearing the following sequence of events and circumstances leading up to the claimant’s plea for a mitigation of the forfeiture: Therio *811Barefoot is a notorious…