United States v. US Foreign Corporation

SOLOMON, District Judge (sitting by designation).

This is an action by the United States to recover the damages it sustained when the defendant U. S. Foreign Corporation refused to comply with a contract to supply the Government with twenty million pounds of flour. U. S. Foreign Corporation defended at the trial on the ground of unilateral mistake, but the jury in response to special interrogatories found that no mistake had been made. The only remaining issue in the case concerns the measure of damages.

The Commodity Credit Corporation (C.C.C.) is an agency of the United States government…