Balfour, Guthrie & Co. v. United States

GOODMAN, District Judge.

The competency of the United Nations to sue the United States in Federal Court under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., is the principal and unique question tendered by the exceptions to the libel of the United Nations and other joint libelants. As well, do the exceptions question the right of the United Nations to maintain the libel against American Pacific Steamship Co., a co-respondent.

The libel alleges that in the autumn of 1947, the- United Nations’ International Children’s Emergency Fund shipped from the ports of Tacoma and Oakland aboard the…