Case Name: EGNER et al. v. UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1926-12-22
Citations: 16 F.2d 597
Docket Number: No. 3306
Parties: EGNER et al. v. UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 16
Pages: 597–597

Head Matter:
EGNER et al. v. UNITED STATES.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
December 22, 1926.)
No. 3306.
John H. Kafes, of Trenton, N. J., for appellants.
Walter G. Winne, U. S. Atty., of Hackensack, N. J., and Harlan Besson, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Hoboken, N. J., for the United States.
Before BUFFINGTON and WOOLLEY, Circuit Judges, and MORRIS, District Judge.

Opinion:
WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
The situation in Murphy v. United States (C. C. A.) 16 F.(2d) 595, which involved an acquittal of the defendants on a criminal charge of maintaining a nuisance and later a decree against them on the civil charge of maintaining the same nuisanee under appropriate. provisions of the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 1013814 et seq.), is repeated in this ease. From the decree closing the premises for one year the defendants appealed and now assign three matters as error, which, abbreviated, are as follows:
(1) Error in entering the decree because the acquittal in the criminal proceeding was a bar to the civil proceeding.
The answer in the negative made by the Supreme Court to this question, certified in Murphy v. United States (C. C. A.) 16 F. (2d) 595, disposes of this assignment.
(2) The findings of the court were against the weight of the evidence.
The evidence, properly weighed, sustains the findings.
(3) "The court erred in not entering judgment in favor of the defendants and against the complainant" — a bad assignment under the rule laid down in The Blakeley (C. C. A.) 285 F. 348, 350.
The decree is affirmed.