L. B. Smith, Inc. v. United States

*563OPINION

By LITTLETON, J.

The plaintiffs, L. B. Smith, Inc., and The Wolf Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Smith Corporation, are Pennsylvania corporations engaged, among other things, in the acquisition and resale of supplies and equipment from war contractors’ termination inventories. They brought this suit under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution alleging that property was taken from them by the United States without due process of law and without the payment of just compensation.

The property alleged to have been taken was 18 fork lift trucks which were originally part of the…