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BALTIMORE, CRISFIELD & ONANCOCK LINE v. UNITED STATES

No. 5166.

140 F.2d 230 (1944)

BALTIMORE, CRISFIELD & ONANCOCK LINE, Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

January 17, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon T. Seawell, of Norfolk, Va., and Theodore R. Dankmeyer, of Baltimore, Md., for appellant.

Arnold W. Knauth, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sterling Hutcheson, U. S. Atty., and Russell T. Bradford, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges, and WARING, District Judge.

WARING, District Judge.

The U. S. S. Texas, a Spanish American War battleship, having become obsolete, it was determined by the government to use her as a target for the purpose of ascertaining the effect of gun fire and other destructive methods of war. The ship's name was changed to San Marcos. She was of course a public vessel owned and operated by the United States of America. On March 10, 1911, the San Marcos was deliberately used as a target by the United States...

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