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TRADERS COMPRESS CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 45767, 45801, 45802, 45825, 46270.

74 F.Supp. 649 (1947)

TRADERS COMPRESS CO. v. UNITED STATES. NORTHWESTERN COMPRESS CO. v. SAME. LUBBOCK COMPRESS CO. v. SAME. COTTON CONCENTRATION CO., Inc., v. SAME. FEDERAL COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE CO. v. SAME.

Court of Claims.

December 1, 1947.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank C. Brooks, of Dallas, Tex. (Callaway & Reed, of Dallas, Tex., on the briefs), for plaintiffs.

D. B. MacGuineas, of Washington D. C., and Peyton Ford, Asst. Atty. Gen., (Horace G. Marshall, of Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN, and HOWELL, Judges.

JONES, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs are cotton compress and warehouse companies, and during the period involved were engaged in selling their services in connection with cotton to the public for compensation. Among the services rendered to the owners of cotton were the compressing and storing of the bales of cotton, unloading them from and loading them into box cars and in some instances delivering the cotton to trucks and to shipside on behalf of the owners.

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