Jacob Dold Packing Co. v. United States

So far as the principles upon which recovery is sought in this case are concerned, it is similar to the cases of Swift & Co. v. United States, 59 C. Cls. 364, 270 U. S. 124, and Libby, McNeill & Libby v. United States, 65 C. Cls. 341, which control the decision herein. The action is based upon a contract made by the Government for delivery to it by the plaintiff of certain meat products. At the close of the World War, the Government found it had no use for the product involved herein and declined to receive it, instructing the plaintiff “ to use every effort to dispose of such material as you…