District Court, E.D. New York July 8, 1908 (McGovern v. David Kaufman's Sons Co.)

CHATEIELD, District Judge.

In the month of August, 1906, tha United States government offered for sale and removal some 7,000 tons of scrap iron and old machinery, which material was at Cristobal, upon the Isthmus of Panama, and which by the terms of the offer, under date of August 3, 1906, circular No.