Shawnee Nat. Bank v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United' States for the Western District of Oklahoma; John H. Cotteral, Judge. Eibel by the United States against one automobile in which the Shawnee National Bank filed an interplea, asserting its ownership of the machine under a chattel mortgage. The lien of the bank was held inferior to the claim of the United States under the forfeiture proceedings, and the Bank brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
CARLAND, Circuit Judge.
Under the provisions of section 2140, Revised Statutes of United States, as amended by Act March 1, 1907, c. 2285, 34 Stat. 1017 (Comp. St. 1916, § 4142), on August 22, 1916, a special agent of the Indian Bureau for suppression of the liquor traffic among Indians, being informed that two white persons by the names of Frank Cole and Rufus H. London, had introduced or were about to introduce spirituous liquors into the Indian country, to wit, the Shawnee Indian allotment of one Irene Whitehead, situated in the state of Oklahoma, searched an automobile then in the…
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