Case ID: dc_2/html/0159-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Betty Read.
    The Court will not order stolen bank-notes to be restored to the person from whom they were stolen, they having been received bona fide by innocent persons in the way of business.
    Indictment for stealing bank-notes, the property of Mr. ' Nottingham. Some of the notes, which were, identified, had been. passed to sundry persons who received them innocently and bond fide in the way of business. Verdict, guilty.
   The Court

(Thruston, J., absent,)

refused to order such notes to be given up to Mr. Nottingham.