Kingsbury v. United States

This case' grows out of cost-plus contracts entered into by the Government prior to and during the World War, with certain shipbuilding companies for the construction of a number of destroyers and cruisers, under which, speaking generally, the Government was to furnish the materials which would be purchased by the companies. The plaintiff was a subcontractor. He was the owner and manufacturer of patented thrust bearings and parts, and entered into contracts with several of these shipbuilding companies through the medium of a number of purchase orders received between May 1,1917, and October…