First Suburban Water Utility District of Davidson County v. United States

The plaintiff, a Tennessee Municipal Corporation engaged in the business of supplying water, on April 23,1942, entered into a contract to supply water to the Berry Hills Air Crew Classification Center, a Government installation located near Nashville, Tennessee. The plaintiff sues for profits lost because the Government did not, during the period that the contract was in effect, take all of the water which it used from the plaintiff, as the plaintiff claims it was obligated to do, but took most of its water from another supplier.

The Classification Center was being constructed in 1942. It was…