Vintimilla v. National Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “inhabitants of Greytown ... had been guilty of many outrages and depredations upon the persons and property of the citizens of the United States”
• “No government, except as a special favor bestowed, has ever paid for the property of even its own citizens in its own country destroyed in attacking or defending against a common public enemy_”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).