United States v. Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A, Middleton Smith, Judge. Action by the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company and others against the United States to recover for property seized by the government for war purposes. Judgment for plaintiffs, and the United States brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, Circuit Judge.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, in an action at law, wherein the plaintiff in error was defendant, and the defendant in error was plaintiff. The facts of the case are briefly these:
On the 23d day of May, 1919, the President of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress of the 10th of August, 1917 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, §§ 3115yse-3115%kk, 3115%Z-3115%r), familiarly known as the Lever “National Defense Act,”' requisitioned and possessed…
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