Isbrandtsen Co. v. United States

HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal from orders in fifteen actions at law brought against the United States under the Tucker Act, each seeking to enforce liability based upon the same facts relating to the defendant’s ownership and operation of S. S. Mormacmar. In each case below the complaint was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction under the Tucker Act upon an opinion, 123 F.Supp. 819, holding that, because the complaints were based upon subject-matter of a maritime nature, the United States was suable only in admiralty under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 742,…