Avey v. Leather Products Co.

The only questions presented by fhis appeal are: (1) Whether the validity of a provision in a contract made with the United States of America is to be tested by applying the law of the •state of the forum or by the laws — statutory or non«tatutory — of the United States, and, the controlling •sovereign having been ascertained, and (2) What its law is on the subject.

The Leather Products Company entered into a contract with the United States on June 10, 1940, to deliver 15,000 pairs of “leggins, canvas, dismounted” to the Philadelphia .Quartermaster Department of the War Department,…