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BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION v. U.S.

No. 247.

352 U.S. 821 (1956)

BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 8, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean Acheson and Edwin Longcope for petitioner. Oscar H. Davis, then Acting Solicitor General, Assistant Attorney General Doub, Samuel D. Slade and William W. Ross for the United States, and John W. Oast, Jr., Wilbur E. Dow, Jr., Barron F. Black, R. Arthur Jett and C. Lydon Harrell for Haslam et al., respondents.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted limited to question 1 presented by the petition for the writ which reads as follows:

"1. . . . The first question presented is whether other claimants in the proceeding may implead the Commission, under the alleged authority of Admiralty Rule 56, to respond to them in damages for osses suffered by them in the...

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