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SOCIETE COTONNIERE DU TONKIN v. UNITED STATES

No. 388-55.

171 F.Supp. 951 (1959)

SOCIETE COTONNIERE DU TONKIN v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

April 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Cronan, New York City, for plaintiff. Francis Currie, Lawrence M. Powers and Burns, Currie, Maloney & Rice, New York City, were on the brief.

Kendall M. Barnes, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant.

JONES, Chief Judge.

This action involves certain bales of cotton presently stored in warehouses in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. The plaintiff seeks recovery from the United States on alternative grounds: (1) the Government breached a contract with plaintiff for the purchase of the cotton, or (2) the plaintiff was so dealt with by the Government that a requisitioning of the cotton occurred, for which the Government must pay just compensation.

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