Columbia Steamship Company, Inc., a Corporation v. American Mail Line, Ltd.

Columbia Steamship Company, Inc., seeks to recover damages against American Mail Line, Ltd., and certain other shipping lines for alleged violations of (1) section 810 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, 46 U.S.C.A. § 1227 ; (2) section 601 of the same Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 1171 ; (3) sections 15-18 of the Shipping Act of 1916, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 814-817 ; and (4) sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 , 2. The trial court dismissed the complaint. We affirm but stay the mandate until there has been a final disposition of the appeal from the judgment in the consolidated civil actions 1576-72, American Maritime Association v. Peterson, Secretary of Commerce, and 1667-72, States Marine International v. Peterson, Secretary of Commerce, rendered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Should the district court’s judgment ultimately be affirmed, the mandate shall be issued forthwith. Should the district court’s judgment ultimately not be affirmed, the mandate shall not be issued and the plaintiff’s complaints will be reconsidered in light of the reasoning supporting the refusal to affirm.

In the proceedings below the trial court ordered the…