Silverberg v. United States

Plaintiffs sue to recover additional compensation for the taking of certain meat by defendant during World War II.

*438During the period involved in this suit, plaintiffs owned and operated a slaughtering plant, under a Class I slaughterer’s license issued by the Department of Agriculture, for the supply of meat to plaintiffs’ chain of 28 retail meat stores.

Beginning in August of 1943, all Class I slaughterers were required to set aside and hold for defendant’s use certain percentages of their production of beef and to deliver specified quantities of this beef to the armed services upon the…