Marquette Lumber Co. v. Burke

Defendants, Frank N. Burke and Robert S. Burke, doing business as Wolverine Manufacturing Company, had contracted with the United States government to supply it with wooden chests. In order to manufacture these chests certain shooks and partitions which followed rigid government specifications were needed. It appears that plaintiff was interested in supplying defendants with these products and on June 25, 1942, wrote defendants quoting a price of $1.75 for each shook, based <fn the government specifications which defendants had furnished. On the 6th of the following month a letter was sent by…