Case ID: us-ct-cl_63/html/0687-04.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Butlee", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. v. UNITED STATES
    [61 C. Cls. 693; 274 U. S. 215]
    Judgment was rendered in part in favor of and in part against the United States in the court below. Upon cer-tiorari the judgment was
    
      reversed,
    
    the Supreme Court deciding:
    A continuing order for naval supplies made during the late war by direction of the President, under acts of March 4 and June 15, 1917, examined and held to be not an offer to purchase but a command, acceptance of which “ subject to conditions ” specified, did not make a contract; therefore, the property-delivered under it was taken by eminent domain, and the owner was entitled to just compensation, viz., the value at the time of taking plus interest on the part not paid.
   Mr. Justice Butlee

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court May 2, 1927.