Littauer v. United States

On November 5, 1917, plaintiffs executed a contract with the defendant for the manufacture and delivery on or before January 31, 1918, of approximately 20,000 pairs of smoked d egrainp.fi horsehide gauntlets, with suede cuffs. They were not the regulation gauntlets used by the War Department.

Prior to entering into this contract plaintiffs were solicited by defendant’s representative to take a contract for the man*118ufacture of regulation gauntlets at $3.00 per pair. This they declined to do, for the reason that they did not have the material necessary therefor, but offered to make gauntlets of…