Cudahy Bros. v. United States

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in plaintiff’s favor in an action brought to recover from defendant what plaintiff claims is just compensation due it for requisitioned beef carcasses, pursuant to the Act of October 16, 1941, c. 445, 55 Stat. 742, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 721. The case was tried under the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 41 (20), to a judge without a jury. The court rendered a judgment that plaintiff was entitled to no recovery except the amount of $4,702.04 representing the unpaid fifty percent of the amount determined under the requisitioned…