Electric Boat Co. v. United States

The plaintiff is a New Jersey corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of submarine torpedo boats and similar vessels. A history of the transaction out of which this controversy arises involves not only the three contracts with the United States directly concerned, but the litigation in this court with respect to all the contracts the plaintiff had with the United States executed on various dates during the years 1915, 1916, and 1917, numbering in all thirty-two, including the three mentioned.

October 11, 1924, the plantiff brought suit in this court predicating a cause of action upon…