Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. v. United States

The facts are fully disclosed and set out in our Findings and need not be restated. The defendant concedes that the plaintiff is entitled to recover the principal sum claimed in suit, $842.18.

It was determined in Aluminum Company of America v. United States, 87 C. Cls. 96, that that company was not indebted to the United States in the amount pleaded in a counterclaim therein, or in any amount whatever, but that the United States on the contrary was indebted to the plaintiff therein, the Aluminum Company of America. Therefore the withholding of the amounts admittedly due plaintiff in this case…