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CASTNER, CURRAN & BULLITT v. UNITED STATES

No. 196.

5 F.2d 214 (1925)

CASTNER, CURRAN & BULLITT, Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 2, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Hayward, U. S. Atty., and Glen R. Snider and Horace T. Atkins, Sp. Asst. U. S. Attys., all of New York City.

Kirlin, Woolsey, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City (Edwin S. Murphy, Ira A. Campbell, and L. de Grove Potter, all of New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

Before HOUGH, MANTON, and HAND, Circuit Judges.

HOUGH, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

It was pointed out in United States v. Cornell Steamboat Co., 202 U.S. 184, 26 S.Ct. 648, 50 L. Ed. 987, that a claim for salvage of government property did not arise upon contract, and yet was one that would be entitled to redress in the admiralty court if the United States were suable therein.

The injustice thus recognized has been partially remedied by the Suits in...

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