U.S. v. ACME OPERATING CORP.

No. 319.

288 U.S. 243 (1933)

UNITED STATES v. ACME OPERATING CORP. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 6, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Rugg, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Mr. Erwin N. Griswold were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Addison C. Burnham, with whom Messrs. Albert T. Gould, Alfred P. Lowell, Charles H. Bradley, and Walter B. Howe were on the briefs, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is here on certiorari, granted on petition of the government, to review a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the intervenor, the Liberty Trust Company, respondent here. 74 Ct. Cls. 82. The suit was brought by Acme Operating Corporaton, as plaintiff, to recover just compensation alleged to be due to it as the charterer of two steamships, the "James S. Whitney" and the "H.M. Whitney," the use of...

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