A. C. Lawrence Leather Co. v. United States

The claimant, being a tanner, engaged in the production of leather needed by the United States during the war and particularly as involved here, in the production of a special upper leather which shoe manufacturers under contract with the Government were being required to use in the manufacture of Army shoes. It was not a commercial product.

Conferences, correspondence, etc., which resulted in the claimant taking on this particular line of manufacture were with one Fred A. Vogel. Signatures to letters indicate that he was probably the chief of the upper leather section of the hide and leather…