AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN S. S. CO. v. UNITED STATES


85 F.Supp. 815 (1949)

AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN S. S. CO. v. UNITED STATES. THE ALASKAN.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

Supplemental Opinion February 15, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, New York City (Clement C. Rinehart and Carl H. Watson, Jr., New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., for Southern District of New York, New York City (Edward L. Smith, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., of counsel), for United States.


LEIBELL, District Judge.

Pursuant to the provisions of a requisition time charter and acting under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, T. 46 U.S. C.A. § 1128, the War Shipping Administration issued a policy of war risk insurance covering the S. S. "Alaskan" under which the United States of America became obligated to pay the owner, American Hawaiian Steamship Company, "just compensation" if the vessel was lost through a risk covered by the policy. The Alaskan was...

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