PETZOLDT v. UNITED STATES

No. 49094.

88 F.Supp. 885 (1950)

PETZOLDT v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

March 6, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar E. Bland, Washington, D. C., Bland & McCook, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for plaintiff.

Carl Eardley, Washington, D. C., Newell A. Clapp, Acting Assistant Attorney General, for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN, and HOWELL, Judges.


LITTLETON, Judge.

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover $20,559.18 representing the amount received by defendant from the sale by it of certain pearls, which plaintiff had imported into the United States from China in 1946, pursuant to a judgment of condemnation and forfeiture in a libel action instituted by defendant in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division.

The defendant demurs to the petition on the ground that...

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