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LUCKENBACH S.S. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 32.

272 U.S. 533 (1926)

LUCKENBACH STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 23, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. C.C. Daniels and Peter S. Carter for the appellant.

Assistant Attorney General Galloway, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. Joseph Henry Cohen, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a suit to recover a balance alleged to be due for several barges and tugs, the possession of and title to which were taken over by the United States under the Act of June 15, 1917, c. 29, 40 Stat. 182. The compensation fixed at the time by the President not being satisfactory to the claimant, three-fourths of it was paid, and the claimant, conformably to the Act, sued to recover a further sum which...

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