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MERCHANT FLEET CORP. v. HARWOOD

No. 345.

281 U.S. 519 (1930)

U.S. SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION v. HARWOOD, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Attorney General Mitchell and Messrs. J. Frank Staley, Erwin N. Griswold, Chauncey G. Parker, General Counsel, Fleet Corporation, and O.P.M. Brown, Special Counsel, Fleet Corporation, were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Frederick H. Wood, with whom Messrs. Herbert B. Lee, Richard S. Holmes, W.H.L. Edwards, and William W. Robison were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case certiorari was granted, 280 U.S. 544, to review a ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the Fleet Corporation is subject to suit upon a contract which it entered into, acting as an agency of the United States under the Urgent Deficiencies Act of June 15, 1917, (40 Stat. 182) as amended.

On June 15, 1917, the Fleet Corporation contracted...

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