Legal Opinion
Chamberlain MacHine Works v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1926No. 123PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sanford
The Chamberlain Machine Works filed its petition in the Court of Claims to recover compensation for the partial performance • of a war contract for the machining of steel shells, which had been cancelled by the United States before completion, pursuant to the terms of the contract. The petition was dismissed on demurrer, without opinion. 59 Ct. Cls. 972. The appeal was allowed in June, 1924.
The petition and an exhibit thereto disclosed that the claim was originally prosecuted in the War Department, under the Dent Act, in. yarious proceedings before the Ordinance Section of the Claims Board,…
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