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GOVERNMENT OF KINGDOM OF BELGIUM v. THE LUBRAFOL

No. 439.

43 F.Supp. 403 (1941)

GOVERNMENT OF KINGDOM OF BELGIUM v. THE LUBRAFOL et al.

District Court, E. D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

May 17, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan & Cromwell, Allen Dulles, Lord, Day & Lord and George de Forrest Lord, all of New York City, Andrews, Kelley, Kurth & Campbell, Robert F. Campbell, and St. John Garwood, all of Houston, Tex., and Samuel C. Lipscomb, of Beaumont, Tex., for libellant.

John E. Green and Walter D. Caldwell, both of Houston, Tex., John Tilney Carpenter, of New York City, C. T. Duff, of Beaumont, Tex., and S. L. Herold, of Shreveport, La., for claimant Gulf Oil Corporation.

BRYANT, District Judge.

Belgium was invaded by the armed forces of Germany on May 10, 1940, since which date a state of war, as was proclaimed by the President of the United States in his Proclamation No. 2405, dated May 11, 1940, has existed between Germany on the one hand and Belgium on the other hand.

On November 15, 1940, the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium filed this libel against Motor Tanker Lubrafol, her tackle, etc., and against all persons intervening...

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