Case Name: FRANK C. MATTERN AND FRANK L. CARRE, EXECUTORS OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL F. HOUSEMAN, DECEASED, v. THE UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1928-12-03
Citations: 66 Ct. Cl. 559
Docket Number: No. H-198
Parties: FRANK C. MATTERN AND FRANK L. CARRE, EXECUTORS OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL F. HOUSEMAN, DECEASED, v. THE UNITED STATES
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 66
Pages: 559–560

Head Matter:
FRANK C. MATTERN AND FRANK L. CARRE, EXECUTORS OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL F. HOUSEMAN, DECEASED, v. THE UNITED STATES
[No. H-198.
Decided December 3, 1928]
Messrs. John A. Tirata, Theodore S. Pml and Charles Plenry Butler, and Pepper, Bodine, Stokes & Sehoeh for tbe plaintiffs.
Mr. William W. Seott, with whom was Mr. Assistant Attorney General Herman J. Galloway, for the defendant.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT
This case is presented for formal judgment, there being no contention between the attorneys of the several parties to the action as to their rights.
The original dispute between the plaintiffs and the defendant was as to whether plaintiffs were entitled to recover the value of the property involved at the time it was taken, together with interest thereon from such time. Any question that may have at one time existed así'to the rule .which should be applied herein has now been settled in plaintiffs' favor by the cases of Seaboard Air Line Ry. v. United States, 261 U. S. 299; Liggett & Myers v. United States, 274 U. S. 215; Phelps v. United States, 274 U. S. 341.
Judgment will be entered accordingly. It is so ordered.