UNITED STATES v. N.Y. & PORTO RICO S.S. CO.

No. 44.

239 U.S. 88 (1915)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 15, 1915.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Robert Szold was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. James H. Hayden, with whom Mr. Norman B. Beecher and Mr. Ray Rood Allen were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit by the United States to recover the increased cost of transportation for coal, above a price that the defendant had agreed to accept for the service; the latter having notified the Government that it would not furnish the steamers agreed. There is no dispute as to the facts. On November 9, 1909, the plaintiff requested in writing that the defendant make...

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