Radium Mines, Inc. v. United States

MADDEN, Judge.

For the purposes of the instant motions, the facts recited in the plaintiff’s petition will be taken as true. The plaintiff made a contract to purchase certain mining claims from third persons and paid substantial sums of money on the contract, with the expectation of mining uranium ore from those claims and selling it to the United States at a profit. The United States would not buy the plaintiff’s ore; the plaintiff was, as a consequence, unable to make its payments on its contract, and hence lost its property rights in the claims and lost the profits which it expected to make…