Legal Opinion
United States v. Muschany
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 22, 1943No. Nos. 12561, 12562PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.
The critical question is whether the contracting system .used by the War Department in purchasing land for a munitions-plant site at Weldon Springs, St. Charles County, Missouri, which allowed the landowners to fix their selling price and to add five .per cent thereto as compensation to the Government’s optioning agent, was a “cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost system of contracting”, within the prohibition of section 1 of the National Defense Act of July 2, 1940, 54 Stat. 712, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1171.1
*663The Secretary of War had directed the Quartermaster General to…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- United States v. Grace Evangelical ChurchCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1942
- Continental Scale Corp. v. Harrison Wholesale Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1942
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Muschany v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- United States v. MuschanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
- Oliver v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
- United States v. Two Acres of LandCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1944
- Oliver v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
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