Case ID: us-ct-cl_62/html/0750-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Taft", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

INTEROCEAN OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES
    [59 C. Cls. 980; 270 U. S. 65]
    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 company, which supplied oil to the Government during the war, moved its storage tanks from the place where they were established to a distant locality, at the demand of an Army officer, relying on his promise that all expenses and losses to be thereby sustained would be paid by the Government and believing that he was acting within the scope of his authority, but where his action was subject to written confirmation by a superior, which was never given, held, that there was no express contract of the Government to pay the expenses, and damages to the company’s business, resulting from the removal ; and that no contract could be implied.
   Mr. Chief Justice Taft

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