William C. Atwater & Co. v. United States

This suit grows out of several orders issued by the Navy Department to the plaintiff for the purchase and procurement of coal. The orders were accepted, the coal delivered, and the plaintiff paid in full' the price fixed in the orders. It is here claiming that its coal was requisitioned, and that it is entitled to the full market value of the same at export prices.

The plaintiff, at the time it received and accepted the orders, was engaged in business as a sales agent, purchasing the output of the mines of others and reselling to coal dealers and consumers without physically handling the coal.…