Wailes v. United States

This suit is begun under the provisions of a resolution passed by the Senate March 3, 1923, referring a large number of claims named therein to this court. These claims are commonly referred to as the cotton linter cases. A petition was filed.in this court December 17, 1934, by the Delta Oil Company. No company by that name is specified in the list of claims set out in the bill. Two companies are specified under the names of “Delta Cotton Oil Company, Gowdy, Mississippi, $18,221.16” and “Delta Cotton Oil Company, Greenville, Mississippi, $25,672.72”, and defendant insists that the plaintiff…