Aktieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg & Dampskibsselskabet Af 1912 Artieselskab v. United States

This case is before the court on defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiffs’ first cause of action, in which plaintiffs sue for just compensation for the taking of 12 of their vessels.

Defendant says that plaintiffs’ claim for just compensation was settled and agreed upon by a contract entered into between the parties on May 10,1946. The question presented is whether or not this contract supplants the claim for just compensation.

The contract in its preamble recites that the defendant took title to and possession of the vessels named and that the Administrator of the War Shipping…