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UNITED STATES v. SHELBY IRON CO.

No. 123.

273 U.S. 571 (1927)

47 S.Ct. 515

71 L.Ed. 781

UNITED STATES v. SHELBY IRON COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gardner P. Lloyd, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell, and Messrs. James E. Morrisette and Randolph S. Collins, Attorneys in the Department of Justice, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Edward H. Cabaniss for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a controversy over priority of equities in fifteen acres of land in Alabama, with a wood distillation plant thereon, between the United States and the Shelby Iron Company of New Jersey. The case involves the construction of a contract between the United States and the Shelby Chemical Company, on the one hand, and of a contract between the latter and the Shelby Iron Company of New Jersey, on the other...

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