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THE WESTERN MAID

Nos. 21, 22, 23, Original.

257 U.S. 419 (1922)

EX PARTE IN THE MATTER OF THE UNITED STATES, OWNER OF THE AMERICAN STEAMSHIP "WESTERN MAID," PETITIONER. EX PARTE IN THE MATTER OF THE UNITED STATES, FORMER REQUISITIONED OR CHARTERED OWNER OF THE AUXILIARY SCHOONER "LIBERTY," PETITIONER. EX PARTE IN THE MATTER OF THE UNITED STATES, FORMER REQUISITIONED AND CHARTERED OWNER OF THE AMERICAN STEAMSHIP "CAROLINIAN," PETITIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Assistant Attorney General Ottinger and Mr. J. Frank Staley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. T. Catesby Jones, with whom Mr. James W. Ryan was on the brief, for respondent in No. 21, Original.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These are petitions for prohibition to prevent District Courts of the United States from exercising jurisdiction of proceedings in rem for collisions that occurred while the vessels libeled were owned, absolutely or pro hac vice, by the United States, and employed in the public service. The questions arising in the three cases are so nearly the same that...

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