Legal Opinion
O. F. Nelson & Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 29, 1948No. Nos. 10816, 10817, and 10818PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
These cases began in libels in admiralty in which the O. F. Nelson Co. and others were decreed not entitled to recover from the United States for damage to and destruction of certain cocoa beans while in the latter’s possession on one of its lighters in the harbor of Pago Pago of the Samoan Island of Tutuila. The suits against the United States were under the provisions of 46 U.S.C. 743, 782, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 743, 782, and hence the United States stands in the position of any private litigant.
The libelants severally appealed. The United States appeared and contested the…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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