WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION v. LAND

No. 24840.

64 F.Supp. 904 (1944)

WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION v. LAND et al.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

August 15, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bon Geaslin and Allen J. Krouse, both of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Edward M. Curran, U. S. Atty., of Washington, D. C. (Joseph A. Fanelli, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and A. Morris Kobrick, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendants.


McGUIRE, Justice.

While it is not clear upon what provision or provisions of law the defendants purport to act re plaintiff's claimed peculiar contractual relationship, they have the authority to renegotiate such contracts as come within the purview of the law in question.

The plaintiff counters with the argument that the contracts in question are outside the renegotiation law, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix § 1191. This, it seems, brings the matter squarely within...

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