Case ID: us-ct-cl_62/html/0756-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice BeaNdeis", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MIDLAND LAND & IMPROVEMENT CO. v. UNITED STATES
    [58 C. Cls. 671; 270 U. S. 251]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    Where a contractor, though not in default, abandons the work and refuses to complete the contract, the Government may relet the unfinished work to another and apply retained percentages toward recoupment of additional expenses so incurred.
   Mr. Justice BeaNdeis

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court March 1, 1926.