United States v. Poller

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Poller was a bonded truckman, doing business in the city of New York, under a license of the Treasury, which allowed him to take imported goods from the local customs authorities. These had suspected that Swiss watch movements were being imported in fraud of the customs, manifested as choco late sweets, and that a ease of this sort had been shipped, marked “L. A. B. #2,” whieh would be so manifested. They also learned that Poller had filed an “in transit” permit for this ease, whieh would allow it to be taken and carried in bond to Philadelphia, where it would'first be…