Little Falls Knitting Mill Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. On the 6th of August, 1898, the Quartermaster-General of the Army adopted new specifications for undershirts for the army, based on recommendations made by the depot quartermaster at Philadelphia.
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The Reporters’’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. On the 6th of August, 1898, the Quartermaster-General of the Army adopted new specifications for undershirts for the army, based on recommendations made by the depot quartermaster at Philadelphia. At the same time samples sealed as the standard were adopted and copies of the specifications, as also samples purporting to conform thereto, were sent by the Quartermaster-General to the depot quartermaster at Philadelphia. These specifications were as follows: “Specification# for lenit…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, J.
The Little Falls Knitting Mill Company, a New York corporation, entered into a contract with the Deputy Quartermaster-General, United States Army, for the manufacture and delivery of 92,000 knit wool undershirts. The contract was dated September 2, 1898, and called for the delivery of 2,400 garments on September 23, 1898, and an equal number each day thereafter until the contract was fulfilled. There were the usual stipulations in the contract respecting the detail of manufacture, inspection, workmanship, etc. The issue presented by the present controversy hinges, however, upon two clauses of…
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