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UNITED STATES v. ASHCRAFT-WILKINSON CO.

No. 908.

18 F.2d 977 (1927)

UNITED STATES v. ASHCRAFT-WILKINSON CO.

District Court, N. D. Georgia.

April 28, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clint W. Hager, of Atlanta, Ga. (H. F. Birnbaum, of Washington, D. C., and C. P. Goree, of Atlanta, Ga., of counsel), for the United States.

Buist & Buist, of Charleston, S. C., and W. D. Ellis, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.

SIBLEY, District Judge.

This is a libel in personam, brought by the United States, as owner of the steamship Vittorio Emmanuele III, against Ashcraft-Wilkinson Company, recipients of the cargo, to collect demurrage for delay in discharging the ship. I find the material facts to be as follows:

In the fall of 1919, Ashcraft-Wilkinson Company contracted to buy of a German syndicate a cargo of fertilizer salts, to be delivered in Savannah, Ga., free of freight...

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