THE JANKO

No. 16974.

54 F.Supp. 241 (1944)

THE JANKO (THE NORSKTANK).

District Court, E. D. New York.

February 10, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper, of New York City (Roscoe H. Hupper, of New York City, of counsel), for libellant.

Haight, Griffin, Deming & Gardner, of New York City (Wharton Poor, of New York City, of counsel), for the Government of Norway, appearing specially.

Lord, Day & Lord, of New York City (George de Forest Lord, of New York City, of counsel), for United Kingdom of Great Britain, appearing as amicus curiae.

Harold M. Kennedy, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and William W. Collins, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., for the United States.


GALSTON, District Judge.

The question for decision on this motion made on behalf of the Kingdom of Norway appearing specially herein as claimant of the libeled vessel is whether the suggestion of immunity filed by the United States Government sufficiently establishes immunity so as to warrant the vacation of the attachment and the dismissal of the libel.

The libel recites that the libellant is a corporation which was organized in December, 1939, under the...

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