HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE v. UNITED STATES

No. 4274.

168 F.2d 47 (1948)

HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 10, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold W. Knauth, of New York City (Henry G. Molina, of San Juan, P. R., on the brief), for Hamburg-American Line, appellant.

Thomas Kiernan, of New York City (Earle T. Fiddler, of San Juan, P. R., on the brief), for Swiss Bank Corporation, appellant.

Thomas F. McGovern, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Herbert A. Bergson, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Philip F. Herrick, U. S. Atty., of San Juan, P. R., and J. Frank Staley, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for United States of America, owner of the Omaha and Somers, appellee.

Joseph W. Bishop, Jr., Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (David L. Bazelon, Asst. Atty. Gen., William T. McCarthy, U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., Max Isenbergh, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and David E. Feller, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Tom C. Clark, Attorney General, as Successor to the Alien Property Custodian, appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, MAHONEY, and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

These are consolidated appeals from an interlocutory order of January 30, 1947, and a final decree of April 30, 1947, as amended May 13, 1947, by the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico, on a libel in rem filed by the United States on its own behalf and on behalf of the officers and crew of the U. S. S. Omaha and U. S. S. Somers for salvage service to the German motorship Odenwald, her cargo and freight. The final

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