Estonian State Cargo & Passenger Steamship Line v. United States

The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court, per curiam, as follows:

This suit is brought to recover just compensation for the requisition by the defendant of the S. S. Maret.

Plaintiff, a corporation organized under the laws of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, alleges that it was the owner of the vessel at the time it was requisitioned. Tallinna Laevaehisus, a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Estonia, and others have filed a petition to intervene, alleging that they were at the time the legal owners of the vessel.

The defendant has filed a plea to…