Sugar Products Co. v. Lockhart
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of St. Thomas and St. John, Virgin Islands; Thiele, Judge. Suit in admiralty by A. H. Lockhart, as attorney for C. H. Kinch, against the schooner Edgewood. The Sugar Products Company, owner of the schooner’s cargo, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
[1] The Congress, by the Act of March 3, 1917 (39 Stat. c. 171 [Comp. St. 1918/Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 3924J4b]), declared that, “in so far as compatible with the changed sovereignty,” the local laws of the Virgin Islands shall remain in force and be administered by the local tribunals there established. By the same Act, the Congress conferred upon this court appellate jurisdiction *349over cases there decided. In an endeavor to exercise this jurisdiction 'in harmony with Danish law yet consistently with laws of our own, as broadly prescribed, we have on occasion found…
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