Cohen, Goldman & Co. v. United States

In this case plaintiff seeks to recover under the first four contracts mentioned in the findings and the two supplements thereto amounts computed upon the basis of 20 percent of the net cost to the Government of the amount of material and trimmings saved by plaintiff in the manufacture of the articles of clothing called for from September 1, 1917, to completion of these contracts. The facts establish that the Quartermaster General authorized this additional allowance to the plaintiff from September 1, 1917, and that the total additional allowance, to which it became entitled under the…