Gulf Oil Corp. v. United States

Each party has moved for summary judgment upon the ground that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact, and that it is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.

The suit is for the refund of some of the money paid by the plaintiff to the Government when the plaintiff bought an oil tanker from the United States Maritime Commission in 1947, under the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946, 60 Stat. 41, 50 U. S. C. App. 1735 ff. The case again presents the problem of the cost of “slotting and strapping” Liberty ships, which problem was first considered by this court in Southeastern Oil Florida,…