Ship Construction & Trading Co. v. United States

Plaintiff claims that on August 9, 1921, the United States through the Shipping Board unconditionally accepted its *455bid for 268 wooden ships with machinery, equipment, spare-parts, and supplies, as amended by its bid of August 5, 1921, and that such bid and such alleged actions constituted a legal and binding contract between the parties which it is alleged the defendant breached between August 9 and September 27, 1921, by refusing to deliver the ships in accordance with the terms.and conditions of the bid as amended. Whether there was a legal and binding contract between the parties…