Goetz v. United States

Plaintiff sues to recover a judgment for $76,531.68. The Milwaukee Patent Leather Company, a Wisconsin corporation now in bankrupty, was, as its name indicates, engaged in producing patent leather. When the country became involved in war the company, recognizing the need for a quality of leather different from patent leather, began to experiment with the tanning of a quality and kind of leather suitable for Army use. Patent leather was a nonessential, and under Government regulations allotments of hides and coal for its production were not favored. Fred A. Vogel was president of the Tanners’…