Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co. v. New York & P. R. S. S. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore; John C. Rose, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Baltimore Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Company against the Steamship Isabela, the New York & Porto Rico Steamship Company, claimant, and the United States, intervener. From the decree (258 Fed. 934), libelant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore; John C. Rose, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Baltimore Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Company against the Steamship Isabela, the New York & Porto Rico Steamship Company, claimant, and the United States, intervener. From the decree (258 Fed. 934), libelant appeals. This was a suit in admiralty, instituted in the District Court, of the United States for the District of Maryland for libel of the steamship Isabela. The appellant, libelant below, is a corporation owning a dry docking and shipbuilding plant…
1Opinion of the CourtPritchard, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The questions involved in this controversy are within a narrow compass; the main question being the proper interpretation to be given to the words “belonging to the United States.” In order to correctly interpret the meaning of these words in the connection in which they are used, it becomes important to consider the circumstances which induced the government to make the grant it did. It must be admitted that, when this land was granted by the government for the purpose of dry-docking, the government’s only compensation therefor consisted in the use of the…
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