Gladding, McBean & Co. v. United States

In this case we must determine just compensation for tin oxide requisitioned from plaintiff by defendant. The problem is not so difficult as it has been in many cases presented to us since World War II.

In many cases arising out of transactions during that war the Government has insisted that the ceiling price established by the Office of Price Administration was the measure of just compensation. While recognizing the evidentiary value of the determination of this agency, we nevertheless rejected it as controlling. Arkansas Valley Railway, Inc. v. United States, 107 C. Cls. 240, cert. den.,…