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UNITED STATES v. FREIGHTS, ETC.

No. 267.

274 U.S. 466 (1927)

UNITED STATES v. FREIGHTS, ETC., OF S.S. MOUNT SHASTA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 31, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Farnum, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Messrs. Clinton M. Hester and W. Clifton Stone, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. Thomas Hunt and John H. Lowrance, with whom Mr. Robert H. Holt was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a libel in admiralty against sub-freight alleged to be in the hands of the Palmer and Parker Company of Boston in the District of Massachusetts. It was dismissed by the District Court for lack of jurisdiction, 291 Fed. 92, and the decree having been entered on March 17, 1925, before the Act of February 13, 1925, c. 229, §§ 1, 14; 43 Stat. 936, 938, 942...

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