Case ID: us-ct-cl_61/html/1025-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice SaNeoed", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HOROWITZ v. THE UNITED STATES
    March 9, 1925.
    [58 C. Cls. 189; 267 U. S. 458]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, the Supreme Court deciding;
    1. The United States, when sued as a contractor, can not be held liable for an obstruction to the performance of the particular contract resulting from its public and general acts as a sovereign.
    2. So helé, where the Government, having sold silk to the claimant, did not ship it promptly, owing to an embargo placed on freight shipments of silk by the United States Railroad Administration, so that the claimant lost his opportunity to resell at a. profit.
   Mr. Justice SaNeoed

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court