DAVIDSON, District Judge.
The foregoing cases, raising substantially the same question, were by agreement consolidated and tried together.
The right of the Federal government in a civil action involving a commercial transaction to claim the protection and advantages of sovereign authority, though not allowed to a citizen under the same or similar facts and circumstances, might be stated as the principal issue involved in this controversy.
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