Felsenheld v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. This was a proceeding commenced in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of West Yirginia, seeking a forfeiture of certain tobacco. Attachment and monition were duly issued. The case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, and a judgment of forfeiture was entered.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. This was a proceeding commenced in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of West Yirginia, seeking a forfeiture of certain tobacco. Attachment and monition were duly issued. The case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, and a judgment of forfeiture was entered. Whereupon the case was taken on error to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which certified four questions. ' The facts as found in the agreed statement are these: At times a practice prevailed among manufacturers of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice BREWbb
The first two questions may be considered together. There can be no doubt that the coupon comes within the letter of the statute. That prohibits packing in, attaching to or connecting with the package “ any article or thing whatsoever ” other than certain specified labels and stamps. If Congress intended excluding from the package absolutely everything not named, it used, the. words to express that intent, and could not have used any more strongly indicative of it. “ Any article or thing whatsoever ” is a descriptive clause as broad and comprehensive as could be selected, and. since that…
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