British American Tobacco Co. v. United States

The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion,

per curiam,

as follows:

Plaintiff filed its petition in this court to recover $4,331,-509.75 damage or compensation on the ground that this sum represented tbe amount due in excess of $6,249,235.85 paid to plaintiff in currency by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, upon delivery to that bank by plaintiff pursuant to Executive Orders and Regulations made and issued by the President and the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to certain acts of Congress, for 302,307.017 fine ounces of gold bullion.

At the time the petition was filed in this court,…