McCloskey & Co. v. United States

Plaintiff sues under the act of June 25, 1938, 52 Stat. 1197, to recover $29,238.05 for increased costs alleged to have been incurred and paid as a result of the enactment of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, in the performance of a contract with the defendant entered into November 26,1932. This amount is made up of three items: First, a wage increase for common labor on October 18,1933, from twenty-five to thirty-five cents an hour, which increase, from October 18 to completion of the contract, amounted to $13,615.30; second, a further increase on January 19,…