BROOKS-SCANLON CORPORATION
v.
UNITED STATES.
UNITED STATES
v.
BROOKS-SCANLON CORPORATION.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 8, 1924.
Decided May 12, 1924.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. John Junell, with whom Mr. William A. Lancaster, Mr. David F. Simpson and Mr. Edward P. Sanborn were on the brief, for Brooks-Scanlon Corporation.
Mr. Henry M. Ward, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Chauncey G. Parker and Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.
Mr. Charles S. Haight, Mr. T.M. Cunningham, Jr., Mr. William B. King, Mr. John J. Fitzgerald and Mr. Wharton Poor, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae.
Mr. Ira Jewell Williams, Mr. Carlos Berguido, Jr., Mr. John H. Stone, Mr. F.R. Foraker and Mr. Francis Shunk Brown, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case arises out of the exertion of the power of requisition conferred on the President by c. 29, 40 Stat. 182, approved June 15, 1917, known as the Emergency Shipping Act.1 There is involved the question whether a certain contract for the construction of a ship was requisitioned; and if it was...
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