Overseas Trading Company SA v. United States

JONES, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff brings suit to recover on a claim based upon alleged shortages in a sale, consummated in Belgium in 1946, of Government surplus property. Defendant moves for summary judgment, relying on the pleadings and its briefs and exhibits.

The parties are in agreement as to the issues presented in this case. First, the question arises as to whether plaintiff, as assignee of a contract between the United States and another party, has any standing to sue this Government on a claim arising out of that contract. And second, whether plaintiff, having further assigned its rights…