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HARVEY STEEL COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. BY LINCOLN B. SMITH. (In the case of Harvey Steel Company r. United States, the Court of Claims recently rendered a judgment, by a majority of four of the rive judges, the majority opinion being written by No«, Chief Justice, and a dissenting opinion by Wright, Justice. The following lines are dedicated to Mr. Justice Wright.)

That Y right is Wright and Xott is Nott Logicians must concede. That Nott is right and Wright is not Four judges have decreed. That Nott is right, and Wright is not, We all must now agree; Then Nott is right and Wright is Nott— The same thing, to a t. If Nott is Nott and Wright is Nott, It comes without a wrench That we have not, if not two Notts, Five judges on the bench. If only four, as shown before, And three agree with Nott, The judgment is unanimous, And Wright's dissent is naught. The knot is not, is Nott not Nott? But, is Wright right, or Nott? Is Nott not right? What right has Wright To write that Nott is not? Do / do right to write to Wright This most unrighteous rot?