Giddins v. United States

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• holding that the theft from “wooden pallets” rather than from wharf was within the statutory compass and any other interpretation would frustrate the intention of Congress
• plaintiff must show “that his claimed injury stemmed directly and proximately from the same type of practice condemned in the prior Government action”
• normal swells from passing ship overturns precarious derrick engaged in lifting constitute peril of sea
• the proposed area “was a practical homogeneous territory of control, fairly encompassing the Baltimore milkshed”
• no inconsistency in jury’s answers to interrogatories that defendant had a general monopoly in the shoe industry but not a monopoly in a particular portion of the shoe industry

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