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A. H. BULL STEAMSHIP CO. v. UNITED STATES

141 F.Supp. 58 (1956)

A. H. BULL STEAMSHIP CO., Bull-Insular Line, Inc., Baltimore-Insular Line, Inc., Libelants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. DICHMANN, WRIGHT & PUGH, Inc., Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. A. L. BURBANK & COMPANY, Limited, Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. STOCKARD STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. NORTH ATLANTIC AND GULF STEAMSHIP CO., Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent (two cases). POLARUS STEAMSHIP CO., Inc., Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. NEW YORK AND CUBA MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. T. J. STEVENSON & CO., Inc., Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. LUCKENBACH STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Inc., Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. AMERICAN-FOREIGN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

Order Affirmed July 18, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell & Keating and Kominers & Fort, Washington, D. C., for libelant A. H. Bull S. S. Co. et al.

Edwin Longcope, New York City, for libelant Dichmann, Wright & Pugh, Inc.

Lester M. Levin, New York City, for libelants A. L. Burbank & Co., Ltd., Polarus S. S. Co., Inc., T. J. Stevenson & Co., Inc.

Zock, Petrie, Sheneman & Reid, for libelant Stockard S. S. Corp.

Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, New York City, and Kominers & Fort, Washington, D. C., for libelants North Atlantic & Gulf S. S. Co., Luckenbach S. S. Co., Inc.

Graubard & Moskovitz, New York City, for libelant New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co.

Arthur M. Becker, Washington, D. C., and Foley, James & Conran, New York City, for libelant American-Foreign S. S. Corp.

J. Franklin Fort and John Cunningham, Washington, D. C., for all libelants except American-Foreign S. S. Corp.

Paul W. Williams, U. S. Atty., New York City, Benjamin H. Berman, Attorney Department of Justice, and Leavenworth Colby, Chief, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States of America.

Order Affirmed July 18, 1956. See 235 F.2d 1.

PALMIERI, District Judge.

These libels present substantially similar questions. They have been brought to recover alleged overpayment of charter hire made to the Maritime Commission. The termination of the charters and the redelivery of the vessels in question by the libelants to the Maritime Commission took place in all cases more than two years before the suits were brought....

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