Flying Tiger Line, Inc. v. United States

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff, a carrier of freight by airplane, earned $71,817.02 by transporting freight for the United States Air Force. The Government paid the plaintiff $5,829.92, but refused to pay the balance of $65,987.10, claiming that the plaintiff was indebted to it in that amount, because the plaintiff had lost an earlier shipment of goods of the Air Force of that value, and was liable to the Government for the loss. In its amended answer the Government says that the plaintiff’s liability to it was in the amount of $67,159.91, and it makes a counterclaim for $1,172.81, the…