TRAILERSHIPS v. UNITED STATES

No. 45923.

66 F.Supp. 595 (1946)

TRAILERSHIPS, Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

April 1, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Turnbull, of New York City (Louis O. Bergh, of New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff.

Frank Staley, of Washington, D. C., and John F. Sonnett, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James McCandless, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and William A. Mellon, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

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


JONES, Judge.

The plaintiff became the owner, by purchase, of the vessel Governor Cobb, on April 7, 1939. The price paid was $75,000, of which $21,000 was paid in cash and the balance in preferred stock of the plaintiff company of the par value of $54,000.

On June 5, 1942, the War Shipping Administration, pursuant to the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended, 46 U.S. C.A. § 1101 et seq., requisitioned the use of the vessel and stores aboard, and on...

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