United States v. Durland
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
This was an indictment against John II. Durland for using the mails to promote a fraudulent scheme to obtain money.
1Opinion of the CourtButler, District Judge
(charging jury). The defendant is charged with devising a fraudulent scheme, and with using the mails to carry it into execution. If the charge is sustained by the evidence he must be convicted; otherwise he must not.
That the mails were used to carry out the defendant’s scheme is undoubted.
Was the scheme fraudulent? It consisted substantially, ¿s I understand the charge, of representing by letters, circulars and pamphlets that the subscribers to, or purchasers of, certain bonds issued by the company, of which the defendant was the projector, and is the president, will he paid according, to…
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