UNITED STATES v. MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.

No. 10573.

144 F.2d 324 (1944)

UNITED STATES v. MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE CO. et al. MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Dissenting Opinion August 14, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Littell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Vernon L. Wilkinson, Lawrence Vold, and Roger P. Marquis, Attys., Dept. of Justice, all of Washington, D.C., and F. P. Keenan, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Rummens & Griffin, of Seattle, Wash., for Merchants Transfer & Storage Co.

Lewis L. Stedman, of Seattle, Wash., for Skinner & Eddy Corporation, and Lewis L. Stedman, liquidating trustee, etc.

Before STEPHENS and HEALY, Circuit Judges, and FEE, District Judge.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Skinner & Eddy Corporation is the owner and Merchants Transfer & Storage Company the lessee of a warehouse on the Seattle waterfront. The property is situated in the Port of Embarkation, an area largely taken over by the government after the nation's entry into the war. On July 29, 1943, acting Secretary of War Patterson requested the Attorney General to institute proceedings to condemn this warehouse, and to procure from the court an...

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