CENTRAL VERMONT CO. v. DURNING

No. 247.

294 U.S. 33 (1935)

55 S.Ct. 306

79 L.Ed. 741

CENTRAL VERMONT TRANSPORTATION CO. v. DURNING, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. J.W. Redmond and Horace H. Powers for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Sweeney, with whom Solicitor General Biggs and Messrs. Paul A. Sweeney and M. Leo Looney, Jr., were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit in equity was brought by petitioner in the district court for southern New York, to restrain respondent, a United States customs officer, from seizing merchandise transported by petitioner's vessels in coastwise traffic, in alleged violation of § 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of June 5, 1920, c. 250, 41 Stat. 988, 999, 46 U.S.C., § 883. An interlocutory...

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