Roy v. United States

Opinion

Per Curiam :

This case involves the question of whether orders issued by the Office of Price Administration and its successor, the Office of Housing Expediter, pursuant to the terms of the Emergency Price Control Act, approved January 30, 1942, 56 Stat. 23, constituted a taking of plaintiffs’ property.

The Administrators of these agencies issued various regulations placing rent ceilings and other restrictions upon the use of plaintiffs’ property.

The issues in this case, insofar as we can determine them, are substantially the same as were involved in the case of Snyder v. United States,…