Thompson v. United States

This is a suit brought by the plaintiff’s decedent to recover from the United States just compensation for the taking by the United States of the oil tanker Gut Heil, which at the time of the taking was the property of said decedent.

The defendant claims that the Gut Heil was the property of the United States, or if she was not, then she was the property of an alien enemy and became the property of the United States pursuant to the joint resolution of May 12, 1917; and that said decedent was only entitled to salvage, and to be reimbursed for the cost of repairs placed on the *524vessel before…