Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Ass'n v. United States

Plaintiffs, millers of rice, seek to recover just compensation for rice alleged to have been taken by defendant for public use, as hereinafter set forth, during the period from September 16, 1946, through November 17, 1946. The rice in question was acquired by the defendant under War Food Order No. 10 which required rice millers to tender to or specifically set aside for defendant a certain specified percentage of all rice of certain grades milled each month. Plaintiffs had no choice in the matter. The order further provided that unless a miller had set aside the required *445amount of rice for…