Commerce International Co. v. United States

Davis, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of the court:

This is a breach-of-contract suit charging defendant with unreasonable delay in supplying parts and drawings, and in failing to permit the prompt commercial purchase of parts when none were available in Government stores. Plaintiff is said to have suffered over $1,650,000 in damages because of defendant’s improper delay.1

In 1950, the Army prepared to let a contract for the rebuilding of some 50O' M36 90mm. motor gun carriages (tanks) which were believed needed to meet the emergency of the Korean hostilities. The vehicles were in a poor state,…