SKIBSAKTIESELSKAPET SILJESTAD v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 507-57, 508-57, 509-57.

180 F.Supp. 957 (1960)

SKIBSAKTIESELSKAPET SILJESTAD et al. v. UNITED STATES. SKIBSAKTIESELSKAPET MANDEVILLE v. UNITED STATES. DAMPSKIBSINTERESSENTSKABET GARONNE v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

March 2, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour H. Kligler, New York City, for plaintiffs. Herman Goldman and Sol D. Bromberg, New York City, were on the brief.

Clare E. Walker, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant.


MADDEN, Judge.

The Government has moved for judgment on the pleadings dismissing the petitions herein upon the ground that all of the claims herein are based upon maritime contracts and, under the Suits in Admiralty Act of March 9, 1920, 41 Stat. 525, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., could be enforced only in a United States District Court sitting in admiralty.

The plaintiffs are all common carriers by water for hire in foreign commerce. They all carried goods...

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