Universal Match Corp. v. United States

Davis, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of the court:

This suit seeks $33,731.42 because of the termination by the defendant, for its own convenience, of a contract for the production of photoflash cartridges. Plaintiff, a St. Louis-based company, had a series of three agreements (Contracts 744, 850, 866) with the St. Louis Ordnance District of the Department of the Army to manufacture various types of these items. The only one of the contracts involved here is No. 866, entered into on June 30, 1954. It contained a standard termination-for-convenience article, obligating the defendant to pay, on…