Legal Opinion
Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 12, 1923No. 407PublishedCited by 434 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
The plaintiff in error, the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, was the owner of 2.6 acres of land at Charleston, South Carolina, adjoining the Charleston Port Terminal, subject to a mortgage to the Guaranty Trust Company and William C. Cox. On May 23, 1919, the United States, under authority of § 10 of the Lever Act, 2 requisitioned and took possession of such land to provide storage facilities for supplies necessary to the support of the Army and other uses connected with the public defense.
The President, through the War Department Board of Appraisers, determined the compensation to be the…
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