New River Collieries Co. v. United States

This is a suit by the New River Collieries Company claiming a large sum for coal alleged to have been taken by the Government at or' near Hampton Roads, besides a smaller quantity taken at the mines. Payments were made from time to time upon invoices rendered when the coal was delivered, and in the amounts' shown by the invoices, but the claim is that these did not afford the just compensation to which the plaintiff was entitled.

*227The transactions out of which the suit grows had their origin in a letter by the Secretary of the Navy to the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal and Coke Company,' dated June 14,…