Edward P. Stahel & Co. v. United States

The plaintiffs in these nine cases sue for additional compensation for raw silk acquired from them by the-Government in transactions described fully in our findings and' briefly-hereinafter in this opinion. They urge that the Government. *737“took” their silk for public use within the'meaning of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and that the price' which it paid them for it was less than the just compensation provided in the Constitution. We have concluded that the amount which the Government paid them was, so far as concerned the principal amounts paid to each of the…