Ducos v. United States

ANDEBSON, Circuit Judge.

The court below entered decrees forfeiting the schooner Cherie and her cargo of liquors. The claimant appealed, and assigned thirty-one errors, cut down in argument to four points, only one of which calls for serious consideration. The facts, stated substantially as found by the court below, are as follows:

The two-masted schooner Cherie, 95 tons burden, of French registry, and flying that flag, having cleared from Halifax to Nassau with a large cargo of liquors, arrived off the coast of Maine on June 19,1925, and anchored seven or eight miles southwesterly of Swan’s…