UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORP. v. ROSENBERG BROTHERS & CO.

Nos. 119, 120, 121.

276 U.S. 202 (1928)

UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION v. ROSENBERG BROTHERS & COMPANY. SAME v. CALIFORNIA WINE ASSOCIATION. SAME v. S.L. JONES & COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 20, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Chauncey G. Parker, General Counsel, U.S. Shipping Board, for petitioner. On the brief were also the Solicitor General and Messrs. George R. Farnum, Assistant Attorney General, Arthur M. Boal, Admiralty Counsel, F.R. Conway, Assistant Admiralty Counsel, of the Shipping Board, Clinton M. Hester, and John T. Fowler, Jr.

Mr. J.M. Mannon, Jr., with whom Messrs. Farnham P. Griffiths, Edwin S. Pillsbury, Edward J. McCutchen, and Warren Olney, Jr., were on the brief, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are consolidated libels in personam, brought in admiralty by the respondents against the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in the Federal District Court for Northern California, in October, 1922, and November, 1923, to recover the value of goods shipped by them in December, 1919, and January, 1920, from San Francisco to ports in Wales and Holland...

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