Plant Investment Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. Claimant is a citizen of the United States and is a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut and is engaged in conducting a general shipping and transportation business and is the owner of the claims in question and has neither assigned nor sold them in whole or in part. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. Claimant is a citizen of the United States and is a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut and is engaged in conducting a general shipping and transportation business and is the owner of the claims in question and has neither assigned nor sold them in whole or in part. II. On the dates hereinafter set forth the following preliminary telegrams were exchanged between the claimant and defendants respecting the execution of the charter party hereinafter mentioned:…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, J.
This is a suit to recover damages for the alleged ill us© and abuse of a chartered steam vessel. The claimant, a Connecticut corporation, on April 29, 1898, entered into a charter *383party with the defendant concerning the transportation of troops and supplies to be used in the war with Spain. The vessel, the Florida by name, used for this purpose, was a vessel of little over 1,700 registered tons, of somewhat limited carrying capacity, being usually employed by the claimant in the transportation of freight and passengers in southern ■waters. While lying at anchor in the port of Ponce, P. It.,…
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