Fabrica Uruguaya de Neumaticos, S. A. v. United States

Plaintiff sues the defendant for what it says is just compensation for a quantity of rubber which defendant requisitioned in September and October of 1942. It was paid an amount computed according to the Surplus Stocks Program formula. This was cost, freight, insurance and storage charges.

In Neumaticos-Goodyear, S. A. v. United States, 109 C. Cls. 535; certiorari denied, 334 U. S. 838, we held that this formula afforded the fairest measure of just compensation under all the facts there existing, if there be added thereto a fair mark-up for profit. The facts in that case and in this are the…