R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. United States

LITTLETON, Judge.

This suit is for the recovery of interest under the act of March 3, 1875, on amounts duly allowed by legal' authority and presented for payment and withheld as offsets against an alleged indebtedness of plaintiff to the United States on account of an alleged overpayment by the War Department for tobacco products furnished the government.

The alleged indebtedness of plaintiff as claimed by the defendant was held invalid by this court in American Tobacco Co. v. United States, 58 Ct.Cl. 717, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. v. United States, 61 Ct.Cl. 693, and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco…