United States v. Two Hundred & Fifty-four Bottles of Intoxicating Liquor

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This is a libel of information filed by the United States attorney on behalf of the government to forfeit 254 bottles of liquor brought into the port of Galveston on or about the 8th day of April, 1922, on the steamship Mount Evans, a vessel owned by and operated for the account of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. The libel seeks to forfeit under sections 3/6, and 26 of title 2 of the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. 305).

The claimant, Capt. A. A. Johnson, master of the vessel, files a claim for the liquor, asserting that he had the…