Henry H. Cross Co. v. United States

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

This suit was instituted against the United States, to recover an unpaid balance of $2,546.70, alleged to be due for fuel oil sold to the government for use at the Veterans Hospital at Hines, Illinois. In reality, the balance is the amount which plaintiff alleges was improperly deducted by the government, as freight charges, from the contract price of fuel oil furnished by plaintiff and shipped from Robinson, Illinois via the Illinois Central Railroad Company to Broadview, Illinois (Vet. Admin., Government Siding). The amount properly deducted by the government depends…