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LITTLEJOHN & CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 94.

270 U.S. 215 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 244

70 L.Ed. 553

L. LITTLEJOHN & CO., INC., ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. James W. Ryan and John M. Woolsey, with whom Messrs. T. Catesby Jones, D. Roger Englar, and J.M.R. Lyeth were on the brief, for appellants.

Solicitor General Mitchell, with whom Assistant Attorney General Letts and Mr. J. Frank Staley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The court below sustained a challenge to its jurisdiction, and this direct appeal followed.

October 9, 1919, in New York Harbor the steamships "Antigone" and "Gaelic Prince" collided. Serious injury resulted to the latter and its cargo. February 19, 1921, relying upon the Suits in Admiralty Act of March 9, 1920 (c. 95, 41 Stat. 525), the owners seek to recover...

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