Case Name: ISTHMIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Libelant-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1958-05-06
Citations: 255 F.2d 816
Docket Number: No. 4, Docket 24415
Parties: ISTHMIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Libelant-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 255
Pages: 816–817

Head Matter:
ISTHMIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Libelant-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellant.
No. 4, Docket 24415.
United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.
Argued Nov. 6, 1957.
Decided May 6, 1958.
See also, 134 F.Supp. 854.
Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City (Clement C. Rinehart and Walter P. Hickey, New York City, of counsel), for libelant-appellee.
George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul W. Williams, U. S. Atty., S. D. New York, New York City, Paul A. Sweeney, Washington, D. C., Benjamin H. Berman, New York City, and Herman Marcuse, Washington, D. C., Attys., Dept. of Justice (Leavenworth Colby, Chief, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for respondent-appellant.
Before SWAN, MEDINA and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEDINA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves the same questions as were considered in Grace Line, Inc., v. United States, 255 F.2d 810 our opinion in which case is filed herewith.. In 1946 Isthmian Steamship Company, appellee, used eight vessels chartered to it on a bareboat basis by the United States through the War Shipping Administration. As a result of Isthmian's, use of these vessels for the period from May 1, 1946 to July 31, 1948, the United States claimed $115,203.76 as additional, charter hire, which Isthmian refused to. pay. When, after carrying certain cargo, for the United States in 1953, Isthmian, submitted a bill for $116,511.44, the-United States withheld the amount allegedly due as additional charter hire. Isthmian thereupon filed the libel below to recover its freight for the 1953 shipments.
Isthmian's libel did not refer to its alleged indebtedness to the United States arising out of the 1946-1948 chartering of the vessels. The government's answer alleged that Isthmian was indebted to the United States because of the earlier transaction between the parties, but Isthmian's exception to this answer was sustained on the ground that the admiralty court had no jurisdiction over the set-off not related to the subject of the libel, and a decree pro confesso followed.
For the reasons stated in our opinion in Grace Line, Inc., v. United States, 255 F.2d 810, the decree of the court below is
Affirmed.