United States v. Moore-Mccormack Lines, Inc., and Indemnity Insurance Company of North America

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The Maritime Administrator and some subsidized American shipping companies, which were also charterers of government-owned vessels, have differed over the computation of additional charter hire for the chartered vessels. Preliminary phases of the controversy, as it aff ects other shipping companies, have been considered by the courts, 1 but this is the first case to present the merits for decision. This controversy comes to us now on an appeal by Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. and its surety from a judgment of the District Court awarding the United States $592,088.44 as…