Brooks-Scanlon Corp. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The plaintiff is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware. On October 20, 1917, Scanlon and his associates acquired an interest in the Carpenter-O’Brien Co. and on December 8, 1917, the name of the Carpenter-O’Brien Co. was changed to the Brooks-Scanlon Corporation.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The plaintiff is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware. On October 20, 1917, Scanlon and his associates acquired an interest in the Carpenter-O’Brien Co. and on December 8, 1917, the name of the Carpenter-O’Brien Co. was changed to the Brooks-Scanlon Corporation. The Carpenter-O’Brien Co. was the assignee of all the interests of the East Coast Transportation Co. in the contract hereinafter set forth between the East Coast Transportation Co. and…
1DissentCampbell, Chief Justice
A contract is property for which compensation must be made when taken for public use. Omnia Commercial Co. v. United States, 261 U. S. 502, decided April 9, 1923; Long Island Water Supply Co. v. Brooklyn, 166 U. S. 685, 690; Cincinnati v. L. & N. R. R. Co., 223 U. S. 390, 400. In the Omnia Commercial Co. case the appellant owned a contract by which it acquired the right to purchase a large quantity of steel plate from the Allegheny Steel Company. The Government requisitioned the steel company’s entire production of steel plate for the year 1918 and directed that company not to comply with the…
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- Texas Co. v. Hogarth Shipping Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
- City of Cincinnati v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
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