United States v. Hall
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. This was a suit by the United States against Hudson Gr. Hall and others to compel removal of an obstruction to navigation. The circuit court dismissed the bill, and a decree for defendants was entered thereon. The United States appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
This is a bill in equity based upon the act of congress of September 19, 1890 (26 Stat. 426), and instituted under the direction of the attorney general of the United States, to compel the defendants to remove the hull of a vessel, which, it is claimed, exists as an obstruction to navigation, in Rock-land harbor, on the coast of Maine, and comes by appeal from the circuit court for that district
*473The facte are, in substance, as follows: On the 8th of February, 1893, the three-masted and double-decked schooner, William H. Jones, sailed from Rockland, with a cargo of…
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