WHITE
v.
BUTLER; WHITE V. RUCKMAN

U.S. | 1898-05-31
Nos. 540, 541
171 U.S. 379 Supreme Court of the United States (1898) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 43 L. Ed. 204 · 18 S. Ct. 949 · 1898 U.S. LEXIS 1610 · SCDB 1897-182
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Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Harlan

Mr. Justice Harlan delivered the opinion of the court.

Butler, the appellee in the first of the above cases, was a storekeeper of the United States at the Hannis distillery at Martinsburg,' West-Virginia.

Ruckman, the appellee in the second case, was also a storekeeper at the same distillery.

The bill in each case is substantially like that in White v. Berry, ante, 366, just decided. The relief asked by Butler and Ruckman is the same as that asked by Berry, and the decree rendered in behalf of each was the same as that rendered in Berry's case.

For the reasons stated in the opinion just delivered in White v. Berry, the decree in each of the above cases must be

Reversed, and' the causes remanded with directions to dismiss the. bills.

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