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UNITED STATES v. JAMES L. RICHARDS

No. 4428.

179 F.2d 530 (1950)

UNITED STATES, on Behalf of the LORD COMMISSIONERS, etc., et al. v. The JAMES L. RICHARDS.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

January 19, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. McGovern, Attorney, Department of justice, Washington, D. C. (H. G. Morison, Assistant Attorney General, George F. Garrity, United States Attorney, Boston, Mass., and J. Frank Staley, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants.

Seymour P. Edgerton, Boston, Mass. (Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, WOODBURY, Circuit Judge, and CLIFFORD, District Judge.

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing as untimely brought a libel in admiralty for salvage instituted by the United States on behalf of the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, acting on behalf of His Britannic Majesty as owner of His Majesty's Rescue Tug "Busy", and also on behalf of that vessel's officers and men, against the steamship "James L. Richards", her engines, boilers, etc.; the Massachusetts Trustees of...

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