Legal Opinion
Cuban Truck & Equipment Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided June 12, 1964No. 245-57PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, Judge
This is a suit by an inactive Cuban corporation2 to recover for an alleged taking of its property in Germany by *384the Department of the Army. Recovery is premised, basically, on two theories: (i) just compensation under the Fifth Amendment3 and (ii) compensation under Article 331 of the Rules of Land Warfare.4
Following World War II the United States Army assembled at 14 storage areas in western Germany and France a large quantity of used military vehicles, which in 1948 were transferred to the German Government for a fraction of their acquisition cost. In turn, the German Government conveyed…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Soriano v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. DickinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Omnia Commercial Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- United States v. North American Transportation & Trading Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Turney v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1953
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Brighton Village Associates, Herbert F. Gold, Juan M. Cofield, James E. Cofield, Jr., Trustee, and Herbert F. Gold, Trustee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1995
- Camacho v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1974
- Acme Process Equipment Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1965
- Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2001
- Heydt v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 1997
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