Legal Opinion
Brooklyn & Richmond Ferry Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 30, 1948No. 189, Docket 20898PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK, Circuit Judge.
1. Since appellee’s claim for payment under a 'mistake o.f law is based on the theory that, under § 237 of the Military Law as it stood prior to March 29, 1944, it was under no obligation to pay tolls for army vehicles, it is first necessary to determine whether that section applied to appellant’s ferry. Appellant claims that it is not governed by § 237, but only by § 33-a of the Public Service Law. We believe, however, that appellant was in fact governed by both statutes, and that the latter statute did not change the applicability of the former to appellant’s ferry.…
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