Public Clearing House v. Coyne
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. . This was a bill in equity by the Public Clearing House' against the Postmaster of the city of Chicago, praying for an injunction to restrain him from seizing and detaining appellant's mail, stamping it “fraudulent,” and returning it tp the senders thereof, and from denying to appellant the use of the money order and registered letter system of the Post Office Department.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. . This was a bill in equity by the Public Clearing House' against the Postmaster of the city of Chicago, praying for an injunction to restrain him from seizing and detaining appellant's mail, stamping it “fraudulent,” and returning it tp the senders thereof, and from denying to appellant the use of the money order and registered letter system of the Post Office Department. An answer and replication were filed and the cause referred to a master in chancery to take the testimony and report the same with…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
By section 3929 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act jqf September 19, 1890, 26 Stat. 465, “The Postmaster General may, upon evidence' satisfactory to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind,, or that- any person or company is conducting any other scheme or device for obtaining money or property of any kind through the mails by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, instruct postmasters at any…
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