Goodwin v. United States

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Goodwin v. United States (1982)
by Noah Haynes Swayne
Syllabus
725242Goodwin v. United States — SyllabusNoah Haynes Swayne
Court Documents

United States Supreme Court

84 U.S. 515

Goodwin  v.  United States

APPEAL from the Court of Claims, in which court one Goodwin, who had chartered a schooner to the United States, at a fixed per diem, sought to recover the per diem during one hundred and forty-four days in which, under the circumstances hereinafter mentioned, the vessel had been detained by the marshal of the United States on a libel filed against her.

The Court of Claims dismissed his petition, and Goodwin took this appeal.

Mr. T. J. D. Fuller, for the appellants; Messrs. G. H. Williams and C. H. Hill, contra.

Mr. Justice SWAYNE stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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