METAL EXPORTS v. UNITED STATES

No. 50021.

146 F.Supp. 951 (1957)

METAL EXPORTS, Inc. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 16, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Longcope, New York City, George Whitefield Betts, Jr., William Logan, Jr., and William E. Logan, New York City, on the briefs, for plaintiff.

Edward L. Metzler, Washington, D. C., with whom was George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., George L. Ware, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


LARAMORE, Judge.

This is a suit by plaintiff, a Panama corporation, for an alleged breach of a contract by the defendant's Maritime Commission, for the sale and delivery of a stockpile of surplus marine parts located at Yokohama, Japan. Plaintiff also claims "just compensation" on the theory that title passed to plaintiff, and defendant's retention of the stockpile was therefore a taking under the fifth amendment.

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