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UNITED STATES v. THE PIETRO CAMPANELLA

Nos. 2498, 2499.

81 F.Supp. 475 (1948)

UNITED STATES v. THE PIETRO CAMPANELLA. UNITED STATES v. THE EURO.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

December 1, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Homer L. Loomis, of New York City, pro se.

Bernard J. Flynn, U. S. Atty., of Baltimore, Md., and Thos. F. McGovern, Atty., Admiralty Section, Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

David L. Bazelon, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Jos. W. Bishop, Jr., Atty., Office of Alien Property, Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Lloyd N. Cutler and Cox, Langford, Stoddard & Cutler, all of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Tom C. Clark, Atty. Gen. of United States, as successor to Alien Property Custodian.

Thos. G. Young, Jr. and France, Rouzer, Lentz & Harris, all of Baltimore, Md., for Societa Navigazione Tito Campanella and Societa Navigazione Ligure Di Armamento, claimants.

CHESNUT, District Judge.

In March 1941, 28 Italian merchant ships were lying idle in various ports of the United States. At that time Italy was at war with France and England but not with the United States. About March 23 of that year the masters and crews of many of these ships respectively, acting on orders of the Naval Attache of the Italian Embassy in this country, intentionally injured or destroyed the machinery and motive power of the ships, to immobilize them...

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