Legal Opinion
Clapp v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided January 5, 1954No. 314-52PublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MADDEN, Judge.
The plaintiff was, in May 1951, the owner of a vessel, the steamship Empire Consequence, which he was anxious to sell, he having in 1949 taken the vessel in partial payment of a debt owed him by the Alaska Transportation Company, a corporation in which the plaintiff had been interested.
On May 2, 1951, the plaintiff entered into a contract to sell the vessel to a Finnish corporation for $325,000, subject to the approval of the sale by the United States Maritime Administration, as required by section 9 of the Shipping Act of 1916, as amended, 46 U.S.C.A. § 808. On May 15 the…
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