United States v. Miller

SMITH, District Judge.

The United States government, through the Shipping Board, made three agreements to sell to the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Steamship Corporation the merchant steamships West Haven, Cape Romain, and Charles H. Cramp. The three agreements are exactly alike in all provisions material to this appeal. In the case of each steamship the purchaser was bound (in addition to the stipulated price to be paid for the steamship) to pay to the seller, on delivery of the vessel to the purchaser, “the current market value at the port of delivery of all consumable stores (U. S. S. B.…