PIEDMONT & GEORGES CREEK COAL CO. v. SEABOARD FISHERIES CO.

No. 58.

254 U.S. 1 (1920)

PIEDMONT & GEORGES CREEK COAL COMPANY v. SEABOARD FISHERIES COMPANY, CLAIMANT, & c.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 11, 1920.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John M. Woolsey, with whom Mr. Frank Healy, Mr. F.C. Nicodemus, Jr., and Mr. H. Brua Campbell were on the brief, for petitioner:


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The Atlantic Phosphate and Oil Corporation owned a fleet of nineteen fishing steamers. It owned also factories at Promised Land, Long Island, and Tiverton, Rhode Island, to which the fish caught were delivered and at which its vessels coaled. When the fishing season of 1914 opened the company was financially embarrassed. Its steamers and factories had been mortgaged to...

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