Jones & Sears, Inc. v. United States

This case is before us pursuant to a special Act of Congress* in which we are asked to determine whether plaintiff herein has any legal or equitable claim, notwithstanding the statute of limitations, for losses alleged by plaintiff as the result of the performance of a contract with defendant dated April 17, 1944.

Plaintiff had perfected the “Gadi” lithographing process which was peculiarly adapted to wartime needs of the Air Force for great speed and large volume in the reproduction of mechanical drawings, and because of the inadequacy of the standard blueprint process of reproduction then in…