COMPANIA MARITIMA v. UNITED STATES

No. 50165.

145 F.Supp. 935 (1956)

COMPANIA MARITIMA v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

November 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Lipscomb, Jr., Washington, D. C., Frederic P. Lee, Washington, D. C., Allison J. Gibbs, Manila, P. I., and Alfred M. Osgood, Washington, D. C., on the briefs, for plaintiff.

Kendall M. Barnes, Washington, D. C., with whom was George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Melford O. Cleveland, Wilton, Ala., on the brief, for defendant.

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


LARAMORE, Judge.

The plaintiff is a Philippine corporation which seeks to recover just compensation for two vessels requisitioned from it by the defendant shortly after the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan. At all times material to this case all of the plaintiff's officers and stockholders resided in the Philippine Islands and a majority of the stockholders were Filipino citizens.

Prior to the outbreak of war the plaintiff had operated a...

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