GREAT WESTERN SERUM CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 90.

254 U.S. 240 (1920)

GREAT WESTERN SERUM COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 6, 1920.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edwin H. Cassels, with whom Mr. James H. Wilkerson and Mr. Edward F. Colladay were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Davis, with whom Mr. Charles H. Bradley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

The Serum Company sued to recover the value of anti-hog-cholera serum, anti-cholera virus and serum blood, seized without agreement to purchase by agents of the Bureau of Animal Industry in November, 1914, and thereafter destroyed. Judgment went for the defendant and we are asked to reverse it upon the ground that "as a conclusion of law the court should have found that the Act of Congress of March 4, 1915...

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