Logan v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia; William T. Newman, Judge. Proceedings by the United States against one automobile, Wisdom & Strickland, ■ claimants, and against one mule, J. W. Eogan, claimant. Judgments of forfeiture, and claimants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
GRUBB, District Judge.
These two cases are substantially alike in their nature and the legal principle controlling them, and may be considered together. In each, the appeal is from a judgment of the District Court condemning and forfeiting to the United States, in the former an automobile and in the latter a mule, as having been used in the removal of goods or commodities (viz., whisky) for or in respect whereof a tax was imposed, with intent to defraud the United States of such tax. Section 3450 of the Revised Statutes (Comp. St. § 6352) directs that such articles shall be forfeited. It is…
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