INSURANCE CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 594-53.

121 F.Supp. 649 (1954)

INSURANCE CO. OF NORTH AMERICA v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

June 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Ely III, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

John F. Wolf, Washington, D. C., with whom was Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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


JONES, Chief Judge.

This is a suit on one of the French Spoliation Claims.

The French Spoliation claims grew out of the depredations of French cruisers upon our commerce, and from the judgments of French prize courts. These claims could have been enforced against France only by our Government either through diplomacy or through a declaration of war.1

France claimed that the United States had violated a previous treaty which...

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