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UNITED STATES v. CORNELL S.S. CO.

No. 265.

267 U.S. 281 (1925)

UNITED STATES v. CORNELL STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. Robert S. Erskine, with whom Mr. John M. Woolsey was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This proceeding was instituted to recover the sum of deductions made by the United States from monthly bills rendered by appellee for the hire of tugs.

During 1917 and 1918, under informal charters evidenced by letters, appellee hired twelve tugs to the United States for use in and about New York Harbor. The specified price was "for each and every day of the...

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