Oceanic Steam Navigation Company Limited v. Mellor

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

United States Supreme Court

233 U.S. 718

Oceanic Steam Navigation Company Limited  v.  Mellor

 Argued: January 13 and 14, 1914. --- Decided: May 25, 1914

Messrs. Charles C. Burlingham, Norman B. Beecher, and J. Parker Kirlin for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 719-721 intentionally omitted]

Messrs. Frederick M. Brown, George Whitefield Betts, Jr., Francis H. Kinnicutt, Kenneth Gardner, and John C. Prizer for William J. Mellor and Harry Anderson.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 721-730 intentionally omitted]

Messrs. Benjamin Micou, Richard P. Whiteley, George S. Graham, Howard S. Harrington, Henry J. Bigham, D. Roger Englar, Oscar R. Houston, and A. Gordon Murray for other claimants.

Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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