Ozanic v. United States

RIFKIND, District Judge.

Shipping Assets Clearing, Ltd., a British corporation, moves for admission as intervening petitioner and for a decree directing payment to itself as the true party in interest, of the recovery heretofore adjudged against the United States in favor of libellant as bailee of the S. S. Petar, sunk in collision with a U. S. Naval Tanker. Issues of fact having arisen, they Were tried, to the court.

Petitioner is the assignee of the claim by assignment from the Yugoslav Government, which had nationalized the Yugoslav *6corporate owner of the Petar, together with all its claims…