Henry L. Crowley & Co. v. United States

Plaintiff brings this action to recover damages allegedly sustained by reason of the defendant’s breach of a contractual obligation to remove Government-owned machinery and equipment from plaintiff’s manufacturing plant in West Orange,-New Jersey, within a 90-day period commencing September 10, 1946. The recovery sought is $2,350,000, or alternatively $2,735,809.97.

*814The Government has filed a counterclaim based ’in part upon an allegation that its machinery and equipment located in plaintiff’s plant was damaged due to the plaintiff’s failure to use ordinary care for the protection and…