Case ID: us-ct-cl_63/html/0678-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DAVIS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
    [60 C. Cls. 201; 273 U. S. 324]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the Uinted States, in part, in the court below. On appeal the judgment was
    
      affirmed,
    
    the Supreme Court deciding:
    A claim for profits anticipated from the performance of a contract with the Government can not be based on delays caused by changes made by the Government, when under the contract itself the remedy for such delays was to be an extension of time to the contractor, and when the contract was terminated by a supplemental agreement expressly releasing all claims for such profits.
   Mr. Justice SutheelaNd

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court February 21, 1927.