Venezuelan Meat Export Co. v. United States

The defendant’s demurrer to the petition presents a question of jurisdiction, which it states substantially as follows: Congress by the suits in admiralty act, approved March 9, 1920, 41 Stat. 525, has provided an exclusive remedy in the District Courts of the United States for the presentation of claims arising out of the operation of Government-owned vessels in the merchant service, and, therefore, if the plaintiff has a remedy under the facts stated in the petition the same can not be asserted in the Court of Claims. Other grounds of demurrer are stated.

The petition alleges that the…