Dayton Airplane Co. v. United States

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

In 1917 and 1918 the United States, hereinafter called the plaintiff, and the Dayton Airplane Company, hereinafter called the defendant, entered into a series of cost-plus contracts for the building of airplanes for’various war purposes. The last contract superseded the others in most particulars, and contained detailed and elaborate provisions for the conduct of affairs under it and for the steps to be taken in the final settlement thereof. Performance of it, as later modified, was finished in March, 1919. Thereupon an adjustment of most of the matters involved was…