O'Donnell v. United States

Through this congressional reference1 we are asked to pass upon plaintiffs’2 claim against the United States for *109losses arising out of certain shipments of potatoes made in 1956 by plaintiffs to Swedish purchasers. Plaintiffs’ claim is premised on an alleged misrepresentation by an agent of the United States that the potato shipments in question would meet the import requirements of the Kingdom of Sweden. Specifically, plaintiffs allege that the Chief Staff Officer of the Plant Quarantine División, Agriculture Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, failed to inform…