WATERMAN S. S. CORPORATION v. LAND

No. 8862.

151 F.2d 292 (1945)

WATERMAN S. S. CORPORATION v. LAND, Chairman of Maritime Commission, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.

Decided June 18, 1945.

Certiorari Granted November 5, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Bon Geaslin, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Allen J. Krouse, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Walker Lowry, Attorney, Department of Justice, of San Francisco, Cal., pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Assistant Attorney General, Francis M. Shea, and Messrs. Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, of Washington, D. C., Arnold Levy, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and A. Morris Kobrick, Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and ARNOLD, Associate Justices.


GRONER, C. J.

This is an appeal by Waterman Steamship Corporation, plaintiff below, from a final judgment entered by the District Court dismissing Waterman's complaint for an injunction and declaratory judgment. Waterman is the owner and operator of a large fleet of ocean going steamvessels, and on April 25, 1941, and on several dates subsequent thereto, chartered to British Ministry of War Transport, an agency of the British...

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