Standard-vacuum Oil Co. v. United States (339 U.S. 157)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 27, 1950 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 339 U.S. 157 · 70 S. Ct. 545
- Docket
- No. 18
- Argued
- October 13, 1949
- Decided
- March 27, 1950
- Term
- October Term 1949
- Vote
- 8–0
- Majority author
- Justice Minton
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Vinson, Justice Minton (wrote), Justice Clark, Justice Burton, Justice R. H. Jackson, Justice Frankfurter, Justice Reed, Justice Black
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Minton delivered the opinion of the Court. On December 5, 1947, petitioner filed suit in the Court of Claims to recover just compensation for certain of its properties in the Philippine Islands which the United States had allegedly requisitioned for military purposes. On March 24, 1948, petitioner filed an amended petition, including for the first time the claims here involved, the Seventh and the Fifteenth. A second amended petition was filed June 1, 1948. In the Seventh claim of the amended petition, petitioner alleged that the United States on or about December 18, 1941, requisitioned and took certain petroleum products and other personal and real property of petitioner located in the Philippine Islands. The Fifteenth claim of the amended petition contained an allegation, inter alia, that during the period from December 1941 to January 1942, respondent took and disbursed certain other petroleum products of petitioner located at another place in the Philippine Islands. In the interim between the filing of the first and the second amended petitions, on April 12, 1948, the United States had filed a motion to dismiss the Seventh and Fifteenth claims on the ground that it appeared on the face of the amended petition that the claims sued upon each accrued more than six years prior to the filing of the amended petition, that the claims were therefore barred by § 156…
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