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COMPANIA ESPANOLA v. NAVEMAR

No. 242.

303 U.S. 68 (1938)

58 S.Ct. 432

82 L.Ed. 667

COMPANIA ESPANOLA DE NAVEGACION MARITIMA, S.A. v. THE NAVEMAR ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 31, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T. Catesby Jones, with whom Messrs. D. Roger Englar, Oscar R. Houston, and James W. Ryan were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Charles W. Hagen, with whom Messrs. Anthony V. Lynch, Jr., and Horace T. Atkins were on the brief, for the Spanish Ambassador, respondent in this Court.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In a suit in admiralty, brought in a district court by the alleged owner to recover possession of a Spanish merchant vessel, the Spanish Ambassador asked leave to intervene as claimant on the basis of an affidavit of the Spanish Acting Consul General suggesting that when the suit was brought the vessel was the property of the Republic of Spain, by virtue of a decree of attachment promulgated by the President of...

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