CALTEX (PHILIPPINES), INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 48322.

122 F.Supp. 830 (1954)

CALTEX (PHILIPPINES), Inc. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 13, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo T. Kissam, New York City, for plaintiff. Albert E. Van Dusen, Henry J. Kiernan, and Joseph M. O'Loughlin, New York City, were on the briefs.

Kendall M. Barnes, Washington, D. C., with whom was Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sues to recover just compensation for its petroleum products stored at Cebu, Philippine Islands, which it alleges the defendant seized on December 8, 1941, immediately following the attack on the Philippines by Japan.

In November 1941 the Chief Quartermaster of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East, designated as USAFFE, ordered Colonel John D. Cook to proceed to Cebu and there to establish an Advanced Quartermaster Depot...

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