Nashville Industrial Corp. v. United States

After the entry of the United States into the World War on April 6, 1917, and prior to the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, the United States acquired a tract of land embracing approximately 5,000 acres in Davidson County, Tennessee, and proceeded to erect thereon a plant known as the Old Hickory Powder Plant, for the manufacture and storage of smokeless powder and other war supplies.

*414On December 22, 1920, the President, through the Secretary of War, who was represented in the transaction by Dwight K. Shurtleff, major of ordnance, United States Army, entered into a contract with…