Briggs & Turivas v. United States

The plaintiff brings this action for damages for the breach of an express contract entered into on December IT, 1919, between plaintiff and the United States Shipping-Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, acting for and on behalf of the defendant, for the sale by the latter to the former of a large quantity of surplus iron and steel originally acquired for the purpose of building ships.

A summary of the facts is as follows: Throughout the year 1919 a division of the Emergency Fleet Corporation was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in charge of a Vice President, J. L. Ackerson. After the…