United States v. Marks

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for damages brought against the United States by the trustees of the estate of L. L. McCandless, deceased, under authority of Private Law 433, 80th Congress, approved June 29, 1948. 1 The damages claimed were in part for loss of livestock and other personal property occasioned by movements of Army personnel on the Island of Oahu following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and in part for the value of two tmex-pired leases of public lands on the Island cancelled at the government’s instigation, assertedly without authority of law. The court awarded judgment on the…