Legal Opinion
The Austin Company v. The United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided March 6, 1963No. 177-61PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LARAMORE, Judge.
This case is being heard on plaintiff’s motion and defendant’s cross-motion for summary judgment, and involves interpretation of a contract which plaintiff says was later found to be impossible of performance.
The Austin Company, plaintiff, entered into a contract with the United States on August 11, 1954, to design, manufacture, test and deliver a Digital Data Recording and Transcribing System, for the contract price of $177,500. This was to be a system, incorporating the use of a servo-mechanism, to gather data from remote locations aboard a ship, amplify the information so…
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