Gould Coupler Co. v. U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
At law. Suits by the Gould Coupler Company against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and by the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Limited, of London, against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and another. On motion to set aside process.
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, District Judge.
The Lake Monroe, 250 U. S. 246, 39 Sup. Ct. 460, 63 L. Ed. 962, seems to me finally to control both cases. In that case the vessel had been requisitioned and completed by the Fleet Corporation and chartered by the Shipping Board, under the “emergency shipping fund” provisign of the Urgent Deficiencies Act. That provision (40 Stat. 182 [Comp. St. 1918,_ § 31151/ied]) empowered the President to requisition any ship then being constructed and to exercise his powers through any designated agencies. The question was whether such a ship was within the liability to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- The Lake MonroeSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- United States v. CarlinDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1917
- United States v. Union Timber Products Co.District Court, W.D. Washington · 1919
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