Case: Paul Zerbe
Abbreviation: Zerbe
Decision Date: 1976-10-21
Docket Number: No. 47-76
Citation: 211 Ct. Cl. 358
Volume: 211
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Paul Zerbe
Judges: Before SkeltoN, Judge, Presiding, Nichols and Kashiwa, Judges.
Pages: 358–359

Head Matter:
No. 47-76.
October 21, 1976
Paul Zerbe
Robert Hv/rly, attorney of record for plaintiff.
C. David Redmon, with whom was Assistant Attorney General Peter R. Taft, for defendant. Lawrence B. Cozzens, of counsel.

Opinion:
Court of Claims jurisdiction; tort claim; revocable license or permit. — On October 21,1976 the court entered the following order.
Before SkeltoN, Judge, Presiding, Nichols and Kashiwa, Judges.
"Defendant bas moved to dismiss this action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Plaintiff complains of the cancellation of a permit to occupy land on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. It was, according to its terms, terminable and revocable at the discretion of the approving officer. If an action for termination of a license terminable at will lies at all, it sounds in tort and is not within our subject matter jurisdiction. Isthmian Airways, Inc. v. United States, 94 Ct. Cl. 598 (1941).
"Accordingly, on the petition, the motion, and the briefs, but without oral argument, it is concluded that the court does not have jurisdiction of the subject matter of the case, and the petition is therefore dismissed."