Legal Opinion
United States v. Swift & Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1926No. 288 and 289PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice. Taft
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a suit to recover damages for the loss caused to Swift & Company by the refusal of the United States to accept a quantity of finished and unfinished army bacon ordered by competent authority for delivery in March, 1919. The only ground for not accepting it was that the need had been removed by the unexpected rapidity of demobilization. The claim was first presented to the War Department under the Act of March 2, 1919, 40 Stat. 1272, known as the Dent Act. It was denied by the Board of Contract Adjustment of the War Department,…
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