Hugo Black,
National Board of Young Men's Christian Associations v…
“ Instead, the taking by the Army was for the benefit of the public generally. I still feel that 'the guiding principle should be this: Whenever the Government determines that one person's property-whatever it may be-is essential to the war effort and appropriates it for the common good, the public purse, rather than the individual, should bear the loss.' United States v. ”
