Derecktor v. United States

The plaintiff sues for damages because the United States Maritime Commission sold him a ship and then, due to the intervention of the Department of State, refused to give bim the documents needed by him in order to operate or resell it. The ship in question was the Colonel Frederick C. John*105son. It bad, before World War II, operated as a passenger boat on the Hudson River, its name being the Dewitt Clinton. During tbe war the Army had requisitioned the ship and had virtually rebuilt it for use as a troop transport. At the end of the war it was a much better ship than would have been expected…