Wah Chang Corporation v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “the temporary taking” of plaintiffs property “for the purpose of facilitating and guarding the secrecy of troop movements in time of war was a 'public and general’ act of sovereignty ‘performed for the general good’ within the meaning of the Horowitz doctrine.”
• Court allowed sovereign act defense although only plaintiff was injured by the government act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).