Case ID: us-ct-cl_60/html/1019-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SAVAGE ARMS CORPORATION v. THE UNITED STATES
    [57 C. Cls. 71; 266 U. S. 217]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    Claimant having been requested to suspend operations as to a large number of articles it was manufacturing under contract with the Government sought to confine the suspension to a smaller number, promising if this were done to abandon and settle all claims and disputes growing out of the contract; and when the suspension request was revised accordingly accepted it, but with an attempted reservation of its right to perform the contract and especially its right to recover all the profits it would have made “ if it had been permitted1 to complete the contract.” Held, thát upon acceptance by the Government of the claimant’s proposal the contract was rescinded as proposed, the release by one party being sufficient consideration for release by the other.; and that the attempted reservation of a right to recover anticipated profits on the articles so eliminated came too late.
   Mr. Justice SutherlaNd

delivered tbe opinion of the Supreme Court November 17, 1924.