Nitro Powder Co. v. United States

This suit is brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of $207,181.80. The facts of the case show that the plaintiff entered into a contract with the Navy on May 8, 1917, for the manufacture of 1,030,000 pounds of TNT at the price of 52 cents per pound, and this contract was suspended and canceled by the Navy on December 23, 1918. The contract was executed’ soon after this Government entered the war with Germany and was for the purpose of supplying the Navy with TNT; before the contract was fully performed the armistice was declared, and the Government concluded that it did not need the…