United States v. Tyndale
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The essential facts relating to this appeal can be briefly stated. They concern a claim, on the one side, by the United States of America, and, on the other, by the public administrator appointed under the statutes of Massachusetts by the probate court for the county, of Suffolk, to the undisposed of- balance of certain personal property found on the body of a deceased person floating on the high seas, out of the territorial jurisdiction *821of any particular state and of the United States. The only thing which might lead to identification was a scrap of paper on the body,…
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