North Star Chemical Works v. United States

This is a suit to recover $17,748.87, an amount the plaintiff claims to have lost by reason of the cancellation of a contract it had with the defendant to furnish the War Department with 250,000 pounds of lanolin.

During the World War the United States Government was in urgent need of lanolin. The plaintiff’s plant was one of the few plants equipped to manufacture the same.

*346In August, 1918, the plaintiff received an order from the .gas defense division of the Chemical Warfare Service for all the lanolin it was capable of producing. At the time this order was given it was stated by the…