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

No. 1509.

91 F.Supp. 214 (1950)

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

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

June 19, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. Santry, Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, Boston, Mass., for libellant.

George F. Garrity, United States Attorney, Edward O. Gourdin, Asst. United States Attorney, both of Boston, Mass., J. Frank Staley, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for libellee.


SWEENEY, Chief Judge.

The libellant seeks to recover in this Court costs of reconverting the SS Acadia from a governmental hospital ship to her former condition as a passenger carrier, the Acadia having been used by the United States during the war as a hospital transport. The libellee attacks the jurisdiction of this Court on the ground that the Court of Claims has exclusive jurisdiction over such an action unless the vessel in question was employed "as a merchant...

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