Foreign Trade Management Co. v. United States

The case at bar involves 840 long tons of copra which were purchased by plaintiff for resale in South America at about the same time the 1,460 long tons involved in case No. 45915, this day decided, were purchased. The difference between the two cases is in this: In case No. 45915 the copra was requisitioned hy the defendant; in the case at bar the 840 long tons were sold to the defendant by the American Union Transport, Inc., which held a lien on it to secure advances to plaintiff. Plaintiff says that this sale to the defendant was under circumstances which amount to a requisition of this…