Harrisburg Pipe & Pipe Bending Co. v. United States

Plaintiff herein seeks to recover the actual losses sustained by it, growing out of the cancellation of a contract, under the authority of an act of Congress approved June 15, 1917, 40 Stat. 182. The contract in question, bearing the number 2067, was entered into by plaintiff and defendant, through Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, and bore date the 19th day of September, 1918, and called for the manufacture of 800,000 4" projectiles, at the price of $7.97 *148each, 1,000 to be delivered on or before December 28, 1918, and 133,000 each month thereafter until completion.

At the time said…