Court of Claims, 1928

Mattern v. United States

Court of Claims · Decided December 3, 1928

66 Ct. Cl. 559; 1928 U.S. Ct. Cl. LEXIS 317; 1928 WL 2972

Counsel

Messrs. John A. Tirata, Theodore S. Pml and Charles Plenry Butler, and Pepper, Bodine, Stokes & Sehoeh for tbe plaintiffs., Mr. William W. Seott, with whom was Mr. Assistant Attorney General Herman J. Galloway, for the defendant.

Opinion of the Court

*560MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT

This case is presented for formal judgment, there being no contention between the attorneys of the several parties to the action as to their rights.

The original dispute between the plaintiffs and the defendant was as to whether plaintiffs were entitled to recover the value of the property involved at the time it was taken, together with interest thereon from such time. Any question that may have at one time existed así'to the rule .which should be applied herein has now been settled in plaintiffs’ favor by the cases of Seaboard Air Line Ry. v. United States, 261 U. S. 299; Liggett & Myers v. United States, 274 U. S. 215; Phelps v. United States, 274 U. S. 341.

Judgment will be entered accordingly. It is so ordered.

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