Imperial Meat Co. v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• 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”
• the proposed area "was a practical homogeneous territory of control, fairly encompassing the Baltimore milkshed"
• normal swells from passing ship overturns precarious derrick engaged in lifting constitute peril of sea
• a duty of good faith in terminating a contract with an "at will” termination clause exists only where a statute imposes that specific duty notwithstanding the clause
• 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