PALMER & PARKER CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 1973.

1 F.Supp. 326 (1931)

PALMER & PARKER CO. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 25, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Lowrance, of Boston, Mass., for libelant.

Harold Williams, Jr., of Boston, Mass., for petitioner Bowery & East River Nat. Bank.

Frederick H. Tarr, U. S. Atty., and A. Chesley York, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass., and O. P. M. Brown, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of Washington, D. C.


MORTON, District Judge.

There is an unpaid balance of freight money amounting to $30,555.55. The present controversy is between the United States as owner of the Mt. Shasta, and the Bowery & East River National Bank, as to which is entitled to this sum.

The United States objects to the jurisdiction of the court to hear this question on the grounds, first, that no question of maritime law is involved, and it cannot, therefore, be interjected and heard in...

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