UNITED STATES v. BUXTON LINES

No. 5668.

165 F.2d 993 (1948)

UNITED STATES v. BUXTON LINES, Inc.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

February 3, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jess H. Rosenberg, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., (Herbert A. Bergson, Acting Ass't. Atty. Gen., George R. Humrickhouse, U. S. Atty., of Richmond, Va., and J. Frank Staley, Sp. Ass't to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellant.

William C. Coupland, of Norfolk, Va., (Vandeventer & Black, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from a decision of the District Court that Buxton Lines, Inc., was entitled to recover from the United States the amount of $4,000 as just compensation for the use of a vessel requisitioned by the United States on a bare-boat basis for a period of four months.

The facts bearing upon the amount of compensation to which the appellee was entitled, may be summarized as follows: The S. S. Norfolk had...

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