Legal Opinion

Santos v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided December 7, 1948No. 12127PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Brought under Secs. 401, 402 et seqv Title 22, and under Sec. 701, Title 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, and the Proclamations, *921Executive Orders, and Regulations made pursuant thereto, the libel was for forfeiture of a truck “being, and intended to be, exported or shipped from, or taken out of the United States in violation of law”.

The case was tried on a stipulation of some of the facts, and an agreement as to what, if present, the inspector who made the seizure and the owner would testify.

The government objected to the relevancy of the testimony of the claimant as to his…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. One Plymouth Automobile v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1947

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Ware's Cut Rate Liquor Store, and C.D. Holt, T/a Ware's Cut Rate Liquor Store v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955

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