Post Pub. Co. v. Murray
Decision Date | 07 March 1916 |
Docket Number | 1145. |
Citation | 230 F. 773 |
Parties | POST PUB. CO. v. MURRAY. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — First Circuit |
Edmund A. Whitman, of Boston, Mass. (Elder, Whitman & Barnum, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellant.
Louis Goldberg, Asst. U.S. Atty., of Boston, Mass. (George W Anderson, U.S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., Horace J. Donnelly of Washington, D.C., and Leo A. Rogers, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.
Before PUTNAM and BINGHAM, Circuit Judges, and ALDRICH, District judge.
This is an equity proceeding in the District Court, in which the Post Publishing Company asked to be relieved from an order of the Boston postmaster, made under direction of the Department at Washington, whereby certain issues of the Boston Post were excluded from the Boston post office and from the mails. The Boston Post is a newspaper published in Boston.
On May 1, and May 2, 1915, it published a certain advertisement in which were represented pictures of headless women shoppers. The advertisement was in part as follows:
Under departmental interpretation of the act of Congress in respect to lotteries, games of chance, and gift enterprises, the Post was excluded from the Boston post office and from the mails. Section 213 of the Penal Code of the United States in question is as follows, and the material provisions thereof are italicized:
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