Hamburg-American Steam Packet Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company, otherwise known as the Hamburg-Americana Line, and Karl Bunz and others, were convicted, under Criminal Code, §' 37, of conspiring to defraud tire United States, and they bring error. The plaintiffs in error are hereinafter referred to as defendants.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company, otherwise known as the Hamburg-Americana Line, and Karl Bunz and others, were convicted, under Criminal Code, §' 37, of conspiring to defraud tire United States, and they bring error. The plaintiffs in error are hereinafter referred to as defendants. Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Aektiengesellschaft is a German corporation engaged in maintaining and operating steamship lines throughout the waters of the globe. At the time of the trial Karl Bunz was the…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above), [1] The District Judge properly took it for granted at the trial that there was nothing inherently wrong in an undertaking by the defendants to provide coal, provisions, and supplies for German warships on the high seas, as the United States and Germany were not at the time at war with each other. Neither the law of nations nor the municipal law of the United States prohibited such an undertaking. The argument in this court properly proceeded upon the same assumption. In Hall’s International Law, p. 607 (Ed. of 1890), it is said that :
“The actual law of…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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- Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. v. MitchellSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Ass'n v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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3Cited by35 opinions
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