United States v. One Pearl Chain
District Court, S.D. New York
Action of Forfeiture for Illegal Importation. This was an action brought by the United States for the forfeiture of a pearl chain of a value of about $26,000, which was found in the possession of the claimant in this proceeding, Ida Josephine Dulles, on her arrival in this country as a passenger on a vessel, and was seized by a special employé of the Treasury Department as imported in violation of sections 2799-2802, 3082, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp.
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Action of Forfeiture for Illegal Importation. This was an action brought by the United States for the forfeiture of a pearl chain of a value of about $26,000, which was found in the possession of the claimant in this proceeding, Ida Josephine Dulles, on her arrival in this country as a passenger on a vessel, and was seized by a special employé of the Treasury Department as imported in violation of sections 2799-2802, 3082, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1872, 1873, 2014], and therefore subject to forfeiture. At the close of the government’s case, counsel for the claimant rested, and made…
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, District Judge
(orally). The consideration that has been suggested ’by Mr. Baldwin that the burden of proof is upon the claimant in this case is subject to the condition that the court finds that there is probable cause for the seizure. I think the question *511whether there is such probable cause as to make the collector absolutely responsible in some way would be rather a different question from the question of whether there is probable cause here on the question of the burden of proof; and in my opinion, in any case, whatever the circumstances are, if at the close of the government’s case there is not, in…
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