DOULLUT & CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 317 and 318.

268 U.S. 33 (1925)

DOULLUT & WILLIAMS COMPANY, INC., v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 13, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E. Howard McCaleb, for appellant, submitted.

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


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The pleadings and proof in these causes are substantially identical except as to names of vessels, dates of accidents and damages claimed. Relying upon the act of Congress approved March 9, 1920, c. 95, 41 Stat. 525, the appellant instituted proceedings in admiralty to recover damages from the United States for injuries inflicted by their merchant vessels, The City of Elwood and The Galveston, upon clusters...

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