Legal Opinion
Seaboard Fuel Corp. v. United States
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 27, 1926No. 143PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
The claim here is for coal supplied to a vessel of the United States operated by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. The latter company contracted the debt. Against it the proceeding is in personam. It would be ordinarily in rem against the vessel, the owner of which would appear only as a claimant. Under the provisions of the Act of Congress (Comp. St. §§ 1251% — 1 to 1251% — 10), however, the libel is in form in personam against the United States. For all the purposes of discussion, the case is one of simple contract. There were a number…
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