Keystone Coat & Apron Mfg. Corp. v. United States

Plaintiff sues for the balance it claims is due by the defendant in the sum of $1,719.38 as payment for 875 pairs of trousers delivered to defendant under a written contract entered into on July 26,1955.

Defendant admits that this amount is due under that particular contract, but it claims an offset in the total sum *278of $7,608.02, or a net balance of $5,883.64, which it claims plaintiff owes on an earlier contract.

The entire issue revolves around the disposition of issues incident to the earlier contract, dated February 20, 1953, to which our discussion will be limited.

Under the terms of the…