Oberndorfer v. United States

■ This case in its general aspects is like that of Swift de Co., 59 C. Cls. 364, 270 U. S. 124. That is to say, the legal principles governing the cases are the same. The facts are not materially in dispute. A corporation known as L. Frank & Son Company was called upon to furnish large quantities of “ corned-beef hash ” during the months of January, February, and March, 1919, for Army uses. The officer in charge of the packing-house products branch, subsistence division, Quartermaster General’s office, being the director of purchase and storage, Brigadier General Kniskem on November 26,1918,…