Brown v. United States

On the 18th of May, 1898, the plaintiff entered into a contract with the Government to manufacture for the use of the Ordnance Department of the Army 50 segmental, tube wire-bound rapid-fire guns, of which the claimant, Brown, was the inventor, together with Navy rapid-fire gun mounts for the same. Twenty-five of these guns were to be of 5-inch and 25 of 6-inch caliber. The twenty-five 5-inch guns were to be paid for at $9,175 each, and the twenty-five 6-inch guns at $10,950 each, making a total contract price of $503,125.

The contract was subsequently annulled by the Government before any of…