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AMERICAN MAIL LINE v. UNITED STATES

No. 45441.

59 F.Supp. 921 (1945)

AMERICAN MAIL LINE, LIMITED, v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

April 2, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Ambler, of Seattle, Wash. (Grosscup, Morrow & Ambler, of Seattle, Wash., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Allan B. Lutz, of Washington, D. C., and Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Frank Staley and Irving R. Storch, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and WHITAKER, MADDEN, LITTLETON, and JONES, Judges.

WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sues to recover the cost of transporting 145 seamen from Hong Kong, China to San Francisco, California, and for the cost of transporting 11 seamen from Manila, Philippine Islands to San Francisco, California. These seamen were a part of the crew of the President Hoover when it was shipwrecked December 10 or 11, 1937, at Kashoto (Hoishoto) Island, a small island approximately 18 miles off the east coast of Formosa. The President Hoover belonged...

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