S. N. T. Fratelli Gondrand v. United States

The House of Eepresentatives has asked us, under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1492 and 2509, to consider the plaintiff’s claim for $1,294,790 (plus interest) on account of items said to have been sold to, or taken by, the American forces in Eritrea in 1942 and 1943.1 Plaintiff is an Italian corporation — engaged in freight forwarding, stevedoring, and transport — which was active in that pre-World War II Italian colony. The company had large installations there, as well as a considerable mass of supplies of various kinds. The British cap*476tured Eritrea in tbe spring of 1941, and thereafter plaintiff, as an…