Alcoa Steamship Co. v. United States

L. HAND, Chief Judge.

The question in the case is whether the United States overpaid the freight due to the petitioner, Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., upon a cargo of lumber shipped upon the petitioner’s ship, “Gunvor.” The United States paid-the agreed freight on the cargo in question, but later deducted the same amount from other freights, concededly due the petitioner upon other shipments; and it has sued to recover the deduction. The facts out of which the claim arises are as follows: On June 13, 1942, the “Gun-vor,” at Mobile lifted a cargo of lumber bound for Trinidad under a “government…