Legal Opinion
Warner-Quinlan Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 17, 1921No. 2655PublishedCited by 9 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Joseph D. Bodine, Judge. The Warner-Quinlan Company was convicted of discharging refuse into New York Harbor, and it brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Circuit Judge.
The Warner-Quinlan Company, a corporation of New Jersey, was indicted under the Act of Congress of June 29, 1888, c. 496, § 1, 25 Stat. 209 (section 9933, United States Compiled Statutes), which provides that:
“The placing, discharging, or depositing, by any process or in any manner, of refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, mud, sand, dredgings, sludge, acid or any other matter of any kind, other than that flowing from streets, sewers, and passing therefrom in a liquid state, in the tidal waters of the harbor of New York, or its adjacent or tributary waters, or in those of Long…
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