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9 F.2d 396

Docket No. 1715.

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Florida Southern District Court

Decided November 21, 1925.)

Florida Southern District Court · decided 1925-11-21

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently October 1956

2 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

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Decided 1925-11-21

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¶1Customs duties <@=>133 — Evidence held not to warrant forfeiture of motorboat for importing intoxicating liquor without permit.

¶2Evidence that motorboat was found tied to bank with no one aboard, and that one sack of liquor was found on board and other sacks recovered, by diving, from water near boat, held insufficient to warrant decree of forfeiture for importing liquors without permit, in violation of Tariff Act 1922, §§ 5S1, 584 (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, §§ 5841h, 5841h3).

¶3Forfeiture- Libel. Proceeding by the United States against the motorboat Do, V-678, to forfeit the vessel for violation of Tariff Act 1922, §§ 581, 584.

¶4Libel dismissed.

¶5Francis L. Poor and R. A. Hubler, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of Jacksonville, Fla.

¶6Bart A. Riley, of Miami, Fla., for claimant.

¶7CALL, District Judge.

¶8In this ease the libel is based on the alleged violation of two sections, 581 and 584, of the Tariff Act of 1922 (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923,' §§ 5841h, 5841h3), and importing certain liquors without a permit so to do.

¶9The only evidence to support these charges is that, when -boarded, the boat was *397tied to the hank, no one aboard, and one sack of foreign liquor was found aboard, and some other sacks of liquor were recovered, by diving, from the water near the boat. This, it seems to me, is not sufficient proof upon which the court can predicate a decree for forfeiture or penalties.

¶10The libel will be, therefore, dismissed.

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