Grant v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM AND IN ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The facts are stated in the opinion. The finding of the court that Grant received the packages and box as a warehouseman is unsupported by the evidence. The title to the books and letters called for by the. subpoena, being in Burlingame personally, the case of Wilson v. United States, 221 U. S. 361, has no application to the case at bar.
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APPEAL FROM AND IN ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The facts are stated in the opinion. The finding of the court that Grant received the packages and box as a warehouseman is unsupported by the evidence. The title to the books and letters called for by the. subpoena, being in Burlingame personally, the case of Wilson v. United States, 221 U. S. 361, has no application to the case at bar. There is no law of Arizona requiring the keeping of such ebooks or papers as is called for by the subpoena and there As no law of the State of New York…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
Walter B. Grant and 'E. E. Burlingame seek, both by appeal and by writ of error, a review of a judgment of the District Court by which Grant was adjudged to be guilty of contempt.
Burlingame was indicted by a Federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York on August'30, 1911, and again on March 15, 1912, the.latter indictment being found against him in connection with The Ellsworth Company, a corporation, J. D. Smith, and others. Walter B. Grant was one of Burlingame’s attorneys. On March 13, 1912, a subpoena duces tecum was served upon Grant directing him to appear- before the grand…
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