Consumers Paper Co. v. United States

The plaintiff instituted this suit to recover the increased costs incurred in fulfilling two contracts with the Government, alleging that these costs were the direct result of the enactment of the National Industrial Eecovery Act.

The action is brought under the Act of Congress approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1197), which confers jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and enter judgments against the United States upon the claims of contractors on contracts entered into before August 10,1933, and whose costs were increased as a result of the enactment of the National…