Van Oster v. Kansas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding constitutionality of statute that declared any vehicle used in the state to transport liquor a common nuisance and subject to forfeiture
• “[A] state in the exercise of its police [power] may forfeit property . . . .”
• “It has long been settled that statutory forfeitures of property entrusted by the innocent owner or lienor to another who uses it in violation of the revenue laws ... is not a violation of the due process clause.”
• automobile used to transport illegal liquor during prohibition
• car used to illegally transport liquor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).