MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a controversy over priority of equities in fifteen acres of land in Alabama, with a wood distillation plant thereon, between the United States and the Shelby Iron Company of New Jersey. The case involves the construction of a contract between the United States and the Shelby Chemical Company, on the one hand, and of a contract between the latter and the Shelby Iron Company of New Jersey, on the other...
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