WATSON, Chief Judge.
At the opening of the trial Howard C. Wood, Department of Justice, attorney for the defendants, presented a motion to abate the action for the reason that the defendants James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Defense, and John L. Sullivan, Secretary of the Department of the Navy, ceased to hold office, and their successors took office more than six months prior to the presentation of said motion, but the plaintiff failed to continue the action against...
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