Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clarke
In 1912 the United States sued the Canal Company to recover the amount of three dividends which had been declared on shares, of, its capital stock owned by the Government, in the years 1873; 1875, and. 1876, payment of which, it was averred, had been refused when demand was made therefor in the year 1911.
After various vicissitudes the case went to trial on issue, joined on the plea of payment by the Company and it comes into this court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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