UNITED FRUIT COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 460-56, 568-57.

168 F.Supp. 549 (1958)

UNITED FRUIT COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

December 3, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William I. Denning, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff, Alan F. Wohlstetter, Ernest H. Land and Joseph F. Mullins, Jr., Washington, D. C., on the briefs.

Thomas F. McGovern, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant.


WHITAKER, Judge.

These cases are before the court on plaintiff's motion to strike defendant's third and fourth special defenses. Inasmuch as these defenses raise the question of the jurisdiction of this court, we think it is necessary to now act upon the question raised by them. Erie Basin Metal Products v. United States, 107 F.Supp. 588, 123 Ct.Cl. 433.

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