U.S. GRAIN CORP. v. PHILLIPS

No. 290.

261 U.S. 106 (1923)

UNITED STATES GRAIN CORPORATION v. PHILLIPS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 19, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Garrard Glenn, with whom Mr. William B. Walsh and Mr. DeWitt C. Jones, Jr., were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Harold N. Whitehouse, with whom Mr. Edward S. Hatch and Mr. Maurice W. Clarke were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit to recover fifty-two thousand dollars, being one per centum of the value of gold carried from Constantinople to New York upon the steamship Laub, a destroyer in the Navy, of which the plaintiff, the defendant in error, was commanding officer at the time. There was a trial in the District Court in which, after the evidence was in, both sides moved for the...

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