United States v. Kennedy

There is no issue of fact in this case, the sole question being whether six wireless telegraphy outfits hereinafter referred to are or are not dutiable.

*443The Panama Railroad Co., the stock of which is owned by the United States, operates six steamships. Four of these are owned by the United States Government and the other two by the railroad company. All are under United States registry. On each, sometime in May or June, 1914, one of these wireless outfits was installed, replacing such an apparatus already in use. These vessels, at the time and prior thereto, had been and were engaged in the…