Anglo American Trading Corp. v. United States

Plaintiff says it had contracts for the purchase of meat in New Zealand, which it intended to sell in this country and which it could have sold at a stated profit, but that it was prevented from securing the meat by the imposition by the Government of New Zealand of an embargo on the shipment of meats to this country. It says the Government of New Zealand was induced by the United States and Great Britain to put on this embargo, and, hence, it concludes that the United States took its meat and so is required by the Fifth Amendment to pay it for it.

For more than one reason plaintiff is not…