UNITED STATES v. THOMAS

Nos. 509, 515, 511, 513, 7, 516, 4, 510.

27 F.Supp. 433 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. THOMAS et al., and eight other cases.

District Court, N. D. Texas, Lubbock Division.

May 15, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde O. Eastus, U. S. Dist. Atty., and Wm. P. Walker, Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty., both of Fort Worth, Tex., for the United States.

G. E. Lockhart, of Lubbock, Tex., for defendants.


DAVIDSON, District Judge.

The foregoing cases, raising substantially the same question, were by agreement consolidated and tried together.

The right of the Federal government in a civil action involving a commercial transaction to claim the protection and advantages of sovereign authority, though not allowed to a citizen under the same or similar facts and circumstances, might be stated as the principal issue involved in this controversy.

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