Court of Claims, 1942

Erikson v. United States

Erikson v. United States
Court of Claims · Decided April 6, 1942
96 Ct. Cl. 127; 1942 U.S. Ct. Cl. LEXIS 102; 1942 WL 4377

Counsel

Mr. John G. Poore for the plaintiffs. Mr. James O. Webster and Mr. John Walsh were on the brief., Mr. J. Frank Staley, with whom was Mr. Assistant Attorney General Francis M. Shea, for the defendant.

Erikson v. United States

Opinion of the Court

The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion

per curiam,

¡as follows:

The facts set forth in findings 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, ■and 16 in the case of J. A. Zachariassen & Co. v. United States, 94 C. Cls. 315, obtain and aré applicable to each of the above-styled cases, and are adopted by the court as its .findings in these cases. Each of the vessels involved in the present cases was detained by the United States for a ■certain period of time between March 18, 1918, and November 26, 1918. The court finds that such detentions were not unlawful, and for the reasons set forth in the opinion ini the case of Zachariassen & Co. v. United States, supra, it is decided that plaintiffs are not entitled to recover. The petitions are therefore dismissed, and judgment is rendered •against plaintiffs for the cost of printing the records herein, the amount thereof to be entered by the clerk and collected by him according to law; It is so ordered.

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