Case Name: MANY TAKI SONODA v. THE UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1961-06-07
Citations: 154 Ct. Cl. 130
Docket Number: No. 67-58
Parties: MANY TAKI SONODA v. THE UNITED STATES
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 154
Pages: 130–184

Head Matter:
MANY TAKI SONODA v. THE UNITED STATES
[No. 67-58.
Decided June 7, 1961]
Robert T. Drake for the plaintiff.
Thomas J. Lydon, with whom was Assistant Attorney General William H. Orriek, Jr., for the defendant.
In her requested findings 149 and 150, and by way of offer of proof at trial, the plaintiff asked for leave to amend her petition and to prove in reopened proceedings that she expended ?3,269.58 in litigating the Instant case. Even if proven, such an item of damage is so clearly unrecoverable that it is omitted from this report except as to this reference.

Opinion:
Per Curiam :
This case was referred by the court pursuant to Pule 45, to C. Murray Bernhardt, a trial commissioner of this court, with directions to make findings of fact and recommendations for conclusions of law. The commissioner has done so in a report filed July 22,1960. A brief was filed by the defendant, exceptions to the commissioner's findings were taken by the plaintiff and defendant, and the case was submitted to the court on oral argument by counsel. Since the court is in agreement with the findings and recommendations of the trial commissioner as hereinafter set forth, it hereby adopts the same, subject to certain changes which have been made, as the basis for the judgment in this case.
Plaintiff is entitled to recover $27,019.49, and judgment for this amount will be entered.
It is so ordered.