Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The United States, in order to provide laundry and dry cleaning services for members of its armed forces, on November 21, 1942, filed a petition in condemnation under Section 201 of Title II of the Second War Powers Act of March 27, 1942, c. 199, 56 Stat. 176, 177, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 632, to acquire the right to the temporary u'se and occupancy of the Kimball Laundry in Omaha, Nebraska, until June 30, 1943, and, at the election of the Secretary of War, from year to year thereafter during the emergency. The Kimball Laundry was a large, modern, long-established,…