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LING v. 1,689 TONS OF COAL, ETC.

No. 14329.

78 F.Supp. 57 (1942)

LING et al. v. 1,689 TONS OF COAL LYING ABOARD S. S. WILHELMINA IN HARBOR OF SEATTLE et al.

District Court, W. D. Washington, N. D.

October 7, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack McWalter, John D. McLauchlan, Jr., and Charles C. Hall, all of Seattle, Wash., for libelants.

Bogle, Bogle & Gates, and Edward G. Dobrin, all of Seattle, Wash., for respondent Jan Vollers, and Java-China Trading Co.

Hayden, Merritt, Summers & Bucey, and W. H. Hayden, all of Seattle, Wash., for petitioner J. Forster, Acting Consul of Kingdom of Netherlands in Seattle, Wash.

Rear Admiral Edward H. Campbell, of Medina, Wash., George E. Flood, of Seattle, Wash., and John H. Binns, of Tacoma, Wash., Prize Commissioners.

BOWEN, District Judge.

On December 7, 1941, the Steamship "Wilhelmina" with a Japanese owned cargo of 4500 tons of coal sailed from Muroran for Nagoya, Japan. The next day, upon learning through the vessel's radio of the outbreak of the present war in the Pacific, the master of the vessel deviated her voyage, and with the approval and assistance of the crew put the vessel and cargo into Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on December 26, 1941. On February 20, 1942, the vessel with...

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