Jacob Reed's Sons v. United States

Mr. Justice Brandéis

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal under § 242 of the Judicial Code from a judgment for the United States entered by the Court of Claims, before the effective date of the Act of February 13, 1925, c. 229,-43 Stat. 936. The suit was brought under the Dent Act, March 2, 1919, c. 94,-40 Stat. 1272, by a manufacturer of clothing to recover the actual loss incurred in renting and equipping a factory required, during the World War, in order to make uniforms for the Government, and for which factory there was no use after the armistice. The claim, as alleged in…