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States Steamship Co. v. United States et al., 1959 — 358 U.S. 933 · caselaw · US
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States Steamship Co. v. United States et al.
358 U.S. 933·Supreme Court of the United States·1959
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Opinion
No. 514.
States Steamship Co. v. United States et al.
Erskine Wood, Erskine B. Wood, Stanley B. Long and Eugene Gressman for petitioner. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Doub and Samuel D. Slade for the United States, Henry N. Longley, John Gordon Gearin and George Buland Campbell for the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. et al., and Charles B. Howard for the Dominion of Canada, respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Motion of American Mail Line et al. for leave to file brief, as amici curiae, denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.