Surplus Properties Corp. v. United States

Plaintiff herein seeks to recover $8,350.58, arising out of two separate claims for freight and demurrage paid by plaintiff on shipments made by the War Assets Administration, under a surplus property sales contract. The Government has admitted liability upon one claim of $1,328.35, which resulted from an erroneous shipment of the wrong type property. The second claim is for $7,022.23 freight and demur-rage charges paid by plaintiff on twenty-seven carloads of storage tanks shipped to it about July 2, 1946, by the War Assets Administration after plaintiff failed, after repeated requests, to…