Case Name: UNITED STATES and Metropolitan Warehouse Company, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Frank SIMMS, Defendant in Error
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1925-03-02
Citations: 6 F.2d 484
Docket Number: No. 4198
Parties: UNITED STATES and Metropolitan Warehouse Company, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Frank SIMMS, Defendant in Error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 6
Pages: 484–484

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES and Metropolitan Warehouse Company, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Frank SIMMS, Defendant in Error.
(Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.
Submitted January 7, 1925.
Decided March 2, 1925.)
No. 4198.
Peyton Gordon and J. H. Burnett^ both . of Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs in error.
R. E. Lynch, of Washington, D. C., for defendant in error.
Before ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices, and SMITH, Judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals.

Opinion:
ROBB, Associate Justice.
This ease differs from the preceding appeal, No. 4197, 55 App. D. C. 356, 6 F.(2d) 481, only in the fact'that the automobile used in the illegal transportation had been stolen. Everything we have said in the preceding ease, just decided, is applicable here. Moreover, the contention that responsibility for any of the wrongful acts of the thief may be charged to his innocent victim, who neither directly nor indirectly- has contributed thereto, involves a novel and startling conception of due process of law. See Goldsmith Jr.-Grant Co. v. United States, 254 U. S. 505, 512, 41 S. Ct. 189, 65 L. Ed. 376.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.