Case ID: us-ct-cl_60/html/1019-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Holmes", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A. W. DUCKETT & CO. v. THE UNITED STATES
    [58 C. Cls. 234; id. 403; 266 U. S. 149]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was reversed, and the Supreme Court decided;
    Possession of terminal property, including a pier on which the claimant had a lease from the owner, was requisitioned and taken by the President temporarily for war purposes (Act of i August 29, 1916), under a general public notice and promise of -compensation. Held, that claimant’s leasehold interest being part of the res was taken, and that a promise upon the part of the Government to pay for it was implied. Omnia Commercial Co. v. United States, 261 TJ. S. 502, distinguished.
   Mr. Justice Holmes

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court November 17, 1924.