General Finance & Thrift Corporation, of One 1954 Model Mercury Coach Automobile, Motor No. 54sl71421m v. United States

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Appealing from an order denying its ■claim, as a protected lienor 1 under Sec. •3617, 18 U.S.C., for remission of forfeiture, claimant is here insisting that the •order was based upon findings of fact, which are without support in the record, and conclusions of law, which are at variance with the decided cases. For the reasons hereafter briefly stated, we agree.

The cause was submitted below upon a stipulation of facts which not only showed that Claude M. Fain, on the face of the papers the ostensible purchaser of the automobile, had no record or reputation as a handler…