Estonian State Cargo & Passenger Steamship Line v. United States

On December 1, 1958, we held that the original plaintiff in this case, which had been “nationalized” by the Presidium of the Provisional Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, had no title to the steamship Maret at the time it was requisitioned by the defendant, which was on September 16,1941 (126 C. Cls. 809).

This case is now before the court on the petition of the intervenors, to wit, Tallinna Laevaehisus (Tallinn Shipping Company), Josep Ferdinand Maipalu, by A. Nurmiste, *815Mandatory, Isaak Kain, Liquidator and Administrator of the Estates of Johannes Linkruus, Theodor…