United States v. 1,572 Cases of Assorted Liquors

GALSTON, District Judge.

This is a motion for an order vacating the seizure and the attachment of a cargo, and for the return of the cargo to the claimant, on the ground that the search and the seizure were illegal.

The.matter is presented to the court on a stipulated set of facts from which it appears that on October 12', 19291 a Coast Guard patrol boat at 1 a. m., while in the vicinity of Cedar Island Light at the entrance to Shelter Island Sound, sighted the American gas screw Beatrice K running without lights. She was identified as the Beatrice K of Gloucester, Mass., and was directed to…