ESTONIAN STATE CARGO & PASS. S. LINE v. UNITED STATES

No. 47862.

139 F.Supp. 762 (1956)

ESTONIAN STATE CARGO AND PASSENGER STEAMSHIP LINE, and Intervening Plaintiffs, Tallinna Laevaehisus (Tallinn Shipping Company), Josep Ferdinand Maipalu, by A. Nurmiste, Mandatory, Isaak Kain, Liquidator and Administrator of the Estates of Johannes Linkruus, Theodor Liiman, Isaak Kain, Julius Truuberk, and Johannes Inkapool, v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

April 3, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. A. Beck, New York City, for intervenors.

S. R. Gamer, Washington, D. C., with whom was Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant. Laurence H. Axman and Lino A. Graglia, New York City, on the brief.

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


WHITAKER, Judge.

On December 1, 1953, we held that the original plaintiff in this case, which had been "nationalized" by the Presidium of the Provisional Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, had no title to the steamship Maret at the time it was requisitioned by the defendant, which was on September 16, 1941, 116 F.Supp. 447, 126 Ct.Cl. 809.

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