Ducos v. United States

According to the record, this appeal is from two decrees of the federal District Court for Maine, entered January 9, 1926, one decreeing the condemnation and forfeiture of the schooner Cherie, her engines, boats, boilers, tackle, apparel, and furniture, and the other condemning and forfeiting the liquors found on board her.

There does not seem to have been any appeal from the decree assessing a penalty of $1,000 against the master, although the libel upon which that decree was based and the decree are printed in the reeord.

In the opinion of the court below, the judge stated that he was unable…