Graybar Electric Co. v. United States

Upon the facts presented by the record in this case and set forth in the findings, we are of opinion that plaintiff should not have been charged with penalties for delay in the delivery of the radio transmitting equipment specified in the contract of December 10, 1935, and that it is entitled *244to recover the amount SO' deducted and withheld from the total contract price otherwise admittedly due. We cannot escape the conclusion that the acts and decisions of the Comptroller General, for which the Government must be held responsible, operated seriously to delay plaintiff in having manufactured…