26 F.2d 1023 | 3rd Cir. | 1928
The appellant was the holder of a permit authorizing him to manufacture, blend, buy, and sell wines for sacramental purposes. A citation was issued against him by the prohibition administrator to show why his permit should not be revoked on the ground, inter alia, that he had unlawfully diverted some 3,000 gallons of wine. Several sessions were had by a hearer, and testimony produced tending to show that, by an inventory taken in appellant’s presence and on statements then made by him, such shortage was proven. The appellant produced no evidence to the contrary. The hearer recommended a revocation of the permit, which was done by the administrator, whereupon the permittee filed a bill against him, praying an injunction to restrain him from revoking the permit and closing the plant.
After hearing the court entered a decree dismissing the bill, stating in its opinion: “The evidence disclosed a shortage in the amount of wine in the permittee’s inventory of something over 3,000 gallons. The inventory was taken in the presence of the permittee, and was based for the most part on figures given by him as to the contents of the various containers in which the wine was stored. The shortage was unexplained. While the testimony of the officers who took the inventory might have been clearer in some particulars, it is nevertheless quite sufficient to form a basis for the fact finding of the Commissioner.” Whereupon the permittee took this appeal.
The testimony in the case satisfies us of the correctness of the court’s order, and, as the shortage and diversion justified' the action of the court in dismissing the bill, we refrain from discussing other alleged grounds of justification, and limit ourselves to affirming the decree below.
