Case ID: us-ct-cl_57/html/0602-02.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

PINE HILL COAL COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [55 C. Cls. 433; 259 U. S. 191.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant in the court below. On plaintiff’s appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    Where the Fuel Administration, under the act of August 10, 1917, 40 Stat. 276, 284, has fixed the maximum price at which coal shall be sold by any producer thereof, it is not a taking of private property for public use under the fifth amendment, from which a promise by the Government to pay the difference between the price so fixed and just compensation, in sales to private customers, can be implied.
   Mr. Justice Holmes

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court May 29, 1922.