Case ID: us-ct-cl_58/html/0704-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Brandeis", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PRICE FIRE & WATER PROOFING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.
    [56 C. Cls. 502; 261 U.S. 179.]
    Judgment was rendered against the United States for a portion of the sum claimed in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    Expenses incurred by a manufacturer after termination of its work for the Government during the war and after November 12, 1918, in efforts to keep alive its organization and regain its commercial business, are not recoverable from the United States under the Dent Act, March 2, 1919, c. 94, 40 Stat. 1272.
   Mr. Justice Brandeis

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court February 19, 1923.