UNITED STATES v. CHARBONNIER

Nos. 2962, 2963.

45 F.2d 174 (1930)

UNITED STATES v. CHARBONNIER et al. (two cases). THE PINELLAS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

October 29, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roscoe H. Hupper, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (J. D. Ernest Meyer, U. S. Atty., of Charleston, S. C., Burlingham, Veeder, Fearey, Clark & Hupper, of New York City, and H. H. Rumble, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellant.

T. Catesby Jones, of New York City (Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, Huger, Wilbur, Miller & Mouzon and Alfred Huger, all of Charleston, S. C., and W. J. Nunnally, Jr., of New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge, and BAKER and SOPER, District Judges.


SOPER, District Judge.

The exhaustive and painstaking opinion of the District Judge in these cases contains the following statement which correctly sets out the issues and salient facts involved in the controversy:

"These two suits arise out of a fire which happened on the [United States] Shipping Board steamer Pinellas at Charleston on the night of June 15, 1921, whereby her cargo of cotton was damaged by fire and by water used to extinguish the fire. The...

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