DERECKTOR v. UNITED STATES

No. 50018.

128 F.Supp. 136 (1954)

Samuel DERECKTOR v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Writ of Certiorari Granted January 31, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour W. Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plaintiff. I. G. Seeger, New York City, and I. A. Logue, Brooklyn, N. Y., were on the briefs.

Thomas F. McGovern, Washington, D. C., with whom was Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant. Leavenworth Colby, Washington, D. C., was on the brief.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted January 31, 1955. See 75 S.Ct. 336.

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff sues for damages because the United States Maritime Commission sold him a ship and then, due to the intervention of the Department of State, refused to give him the documents needed by him in order to operate or resell it. The ship in question was the Colonel Frederick C. Johnson. It had, before World War II, operated as a passenger boat on the Hudson River, its name...

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