A. W. Duckett & Co. v. United States

This is a claim against the United States for the value of the claimant’s interest in Pier No. 8 of the Bush Terminal Company under a lease that ran through Sep- tembér 30, 1919. The claim is based upon an implied contract alleged to have arisen from a taking for war purposes, for such time as might be necessary, of described portions of the Bush Terminal docks and warehouses, including the claimant’s pier. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition for want of jurisdiction upon the ground that the facts found excluded as matter of law the possibility that a contract should be implied and…