Alabama Highway Express, Inc. v. United States

The plaintiff sues to recover money withheld by, or refunded to, the Government because, the Government insisted, it had overpaid the plaintiff for hauling aviation gasoline in tank trucks from Mobile and Port Birmingham, Alabama to Army airfields in that state during the years 1948 and 1944.

Under date of May 14, as supplemented on June 14, 1948, the plaintiff entered into a written contract with the Government for the transportation of an amount of aviation fuel not to exceed a specified number of gallons from tanks at the port of Mobile to Gunter Field at Montgomery, and to Courtland, both…