Foreign Trade Management Co. v. United States

Plaintiff, a corporation doing business in the United States, purchased in Portuguese East Africa some 1,460 long tons of copra for shipment to South American countries. There were no shipping routes from East Africa to South America, and so it was shipped from East Africa to New York, where it was to be unloaded and transhipped to South America. It arrived at New York on May 19, 1942. Plaintiff at once shipped it by rail to New Orleans and was preparing to load it aboard ship to fulfill contracts of sale to South American purchasers when it was requisitioned by defendant. Plaintiff sues for…