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FERRIES CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 46.

266 U.S. 260 (1924)

THE FERRIES COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 17, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.R.L. Taylor, with whom Mr. Hugh C. Davis and Mr. Hugh W. Davis were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. George Ross Hull, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

The city of Portsmouth and the county of Norfolk, Virginia, made a lease of the Norfolk Ferries operating between Portsmouth, Norfolk and Berkeley for a term of ten years, beginning April 1, 1909, to plaintiff's assignor. The properties consisted of boats, their equipment, wharves and other property used for the operation of the ferries. All the property turned over to the lessee, except land, was taken by the...

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