APPLEBY v. DELANEY

No. 16.

271 U.S. 403 (1926)

APPLEBY ET AL. v. DELANEY, COMMISSIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Mr. Banton Moore was on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Charles J. Nehrbas, with whom Mr. George P. Nicholson was on the briefs, for defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The relators base their writ upon the alleged impairment of their contract rights contained in the grant and covenants of their deeds by the plan, adopted in 1916, under the Act of 1871, by the Dock Department, and approved by the Sinking Fund trustees, the execution of which the Dock Commissioner is enforcing by a formal refusal...

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