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HANNIBAL BRIDGE CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 100.

221 U.S. 194 (1911)

HANNIBAL BRIDGE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 15, 1911.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R. Burnham Moffat, for plaintiff in error, Hannibal Bridge Company; Mr. Wells H. Blodgett, with whom Mr. James L. Minnis, and Mr. George A. Mahan were on the brief, for plaintiff in error, Wabash Railroad Company.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Harr for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a criminal Information against the Hannibal Bridge Company, the Wabash Railroad Company, and the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, under the eighteenth section of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act of Congress of March 3, 1899, c. 425, 30 Stat. 1121.

That section is as follows: "Whenever the Secretary of War shall have good reason to believe that any...

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