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SLOAN SHIPYARDS v. U.S. SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORP.

Nos. 308, 376, 526.

258 U.S. 549 (1922)

42 S.Ct. 386

66 L.Ed. 762

SLOAN SHIPYARDS CORPORATION ET AL. v. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION AND THE UNITED STATES. ASTORIA MARINE IRON WORKS v. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION, REPRESENTING THE UNITED STATES, v. WOOD, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 1, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Stephen V. Carey, with whom Mr. Evan S. McCord was on the brief, for appellants in No. 308.

Mr. W.M. Cake, with whom Mr. Gibbs L. Baker, Mr. R.H. Cake and Mr. L.A. Liljeqvist were on the brief, for plaintiff in error, in No. 376.

Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Goff and Mr. Wm. Marshall Bullitt, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Elmer Schlesinger and Mr. Henry M. Ward were on the brief, for the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.

Mr. Godfrey Goldmark for respondent in No. 526.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases present in different ways the question of the standing of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in the Courts — the first two, whether it so far embodies the United States that these suits should have been brought in the Court of Claims; the third whether it is entitled to a preference against a bankrupt which it is asserted would belong to the United States if the United...

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