St. Regis Paper Co. v. United States

JONES, Chief Justice.

The primary question is whether plaintiff’s mill at Tacoma, Washington, was requisitioned by the defendant. The case involves the effects of orders and directives of the War Production Board in allocating and distributing pulpwood logs during the war period.

Plaintiff is a corporation engaged in manufacturing and selling bleached and unbleached kraft pulp. Raw material in the form of pulpwood logs of hemlock, spruce, fir and other softwoods is essential to it operations.

In 1942 pursuant to executive order issued under the . Second War Powers Act 1 the War Production Board…