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UNITED STATES v. EASTERN S. S. LINES

No. 4366.

171 F.2d 589 (1948)

UNITED STATES v. EASTERN S. S. LINES, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

December 31, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jess H. Rosenberg, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (H. G. Morison, Asst. Atty. Gen., William T. McCarthy, U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., of Washington, D. C. and Edward O. Gourdin, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellant.

Arthur J. Santry and Richard Bancroft, both of Boston, Mass. (Putnain, Bell, Dutch & Santry, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, WOODBURY, Circuit Judge, and PETERS, District Judge.

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from a final decree entered in a libel brought under the Suits in Admiralty Act of March 9, 1920, 41 Stat. 525, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 741-752, awarding the libellant, Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc., $1,100,000 as "just compensation" as of October 30, 1944, for the Steamship George Washington with interest on the amount awarded at 4 percent calculated from the date the libel was brought.

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