Legal Opinion
Goltra v. Weeks
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 7, 1926No. 718PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
prepared the opinion of the Court.*
This was a suit in equity brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and reaches here from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the *539Eighth Circuit, by certiorari. The general purpose of the bill filed by Edward F. Goltra, petitioner here, was to enjoin the seizure of a.fleet of towboats and barges on the Mississippi River which had been held by him ás lessee. It charged that the Secretary of War, the Chief of Engineers, and Colonel T. Q. Ashbum, Chief, Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service, were engaged in a conspiracy…
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3Cited by110 opinions
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