Baum v. United States

The allegations and proof are reviewed in the opinion.

The petition alleges that the W. & T. Allen Co., in September, 1918, made a bid to manufacture 120,000 pairs of woolen trousers at 80 cents per pair, inclosing the bid in a letter addressed to the office of the Quartermaster General in New York; that on October 8, 1918, “ the Government wrote the contractor ” asking what his bid would be if the material was cut and delivered by the Government, to which inquiry no reply was made, and that during October the War De~ *324partment awarded a contract to the contractor for trousers “ at 75 cents, in…