THE BEATON PARK

No. 14724.

65 F.Supp. 211 (1946)

THE BEATON PARK.

District Court, W. D. Washington, N. D.

March 30, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam L. Levinson, of Seattle, Wash., for libelant.

J. Charles Dennis, U. S. Atty., of Seattle, Wash., for respondent United States.

Lane Summers and Merritt, Summers, Bucey & Stafford, all of Seattle, Wash., for Dominion of Canada.

Stanley B. Long, Edward S. Franklin, and Bogle, Bogle & Gates, all of Seattle, Wash., for respondents Moran Towing & Transp. Co., Inc., and Williams, Dimond & Co.


BOWEN, District Judge.

The Court denies the claim of sovereign immunity in this case primarily because the Canadian Government's interest in this transaction was not anything other than an indirect interest in the ordinary commercial operation of a merchant vessel owned but not possessed by that Government. The commercial operation was not by the Canadian Government itself, but by a corporation operating agent whose capital stock is owned by the Canadian Government...

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