United States v. Eleven Thousand One Hundred & Fifty Pounds of Butter
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District ®f Minnesota. Information by United States of America to forfeit Eleven Thousand One Hundred arid Fifty Pounds of Butter claimed by the Milton Dairy Company. From a judgment of dismissal (188 Fed. 157), the prosecution brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This writ of error questions a judgment of dismissal of a bill of information filed by the United States •to forfeit 11,150 pounds of butter claimed by the Milton Dairy Company, a corporation. There was a trial by a jury, and at the close of the evidence the court dismissed the suit on the grounds that the evidence failed to sustain the .libelant’s cause of action and that a certain regulation of the Secretary of the' Treasury was unauthorized under the law. • . . .
[1] Was there any substantial evidence to sustain a verdict .for the libelant if the regulation challenged…
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