Broadbent Portable Laundry Corp. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The plaintiff is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and its officers and stockholders all citizens of the United States, with its main office at Washington, D. C., and its factory and place of business is Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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The Reporter’s statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The plaintiff is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and its officers and stockholders all citizens of the United States, with its main office at Washington, D. C., and its factory and place of business is Benton Harbor, Michigan. On November 1,1918, the plaintiff entered into a contract in writing with the United States, through Lieut. Col. P. N. Merzig, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, whereby the plaintiff agreed to deliver 23 mobile…
1Opinion of the Court
Hay, judge,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is a suit brought by the plaintiff against the United States for the sum of $124,801.89.
From the facts it appears that the United States made it impossible for the plaintiff to perform its contract, although the plaintiff was able and willing to perform it on its part. The plaintiff is suing to recover its losses and expenditures and for profits.
The plaintiff has proved its losses and expenditures, and that they were incurred in an attempt to perform the contract which it had, assumed. It seems to the court that the expenditures were…
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