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UNITED STATES v. 12536 GROSS TONS OF WHALE OIL, ETC.

No. 6332.

29 F.Supp. 262 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. 12536 GROSS TONS OF WHALE OIL EX THE CHARLES RACINE.

District Court, E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

February 9, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. H. Holt, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., of Norfolk, Va., and Allan D. Jones and J. Frank Staley, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Robert M. Hughes, Jr. (of Hughes, Little & Seawell), of Norfolk, Va., and George DeForest Lord, John D. Garrison, and Joseph W. Wyatt, all of New York City, for respondent.

WAY, District Judge.

The sole question of law presented for decision in this cause is whether the transportation of the whale oil by the Norwegian ship "Charles Racine", a ship not "built in and documented under the laws of the United States and owned by persons who are citizens of the United States" was a violation of Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, 41 Stat. 999, as amended, 49 Stat. 154, 442, 46 U.S.C.A...

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