Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. United States

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff sues for $19,567.35, the admitted value of certain plumbing and heating materials purchased by the United States. The Government purported to purchase the materials from the Meyer Plumbing and Heating Company, a corporation hereinafter called Meyer, but the plaintiff says that it held a chattel mortgage on the materials at the time they were sold, and that Meyer, therefore, had no right to sell them to the Government. The plaintiff’s asserted chattel mortgage was not recorded, but the plaintiff says that that is immaterial because, it claims, the Government had…