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UNITED STATES v. HAMILTON

Nos. 3370, 3371.

62 F.2d 29 (1932)

UNITED STATES v. HAMILTON et al. SMITH et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

November 29, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. H. Rumble, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Paul W. Kear, U. S. Atty., of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for the United States.

D. Arthur Kelsey, of Norfolk, Va. (Kelsey & Jett, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for Foster Hamilton.

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

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in admiralty from a decree of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, sustaining exceptions to the libel of information against the gas screw Violet and dismissing the libel.

The facts as found by the court are as follows:

"The gas screw `Violet' on October 31, 1930, was licensed to carry on the coasting trade with her home port at Baltimore, Maryland. In the early morning of...

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