MAFFIA v. UNITED STATES

No. 135-54.

163 F.Supp. 859 (1958)

Nicola MAFFIA v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Gittings, Jr., Washington, D. C., for plaintiff. Wilmurt B. Linker, New York City, Evan Howell, and King & King, Washington, D. C., were on the briefs.

Kathryn H. Baldwin, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant.


WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to recover on account of the payment by him, as assignee, of the balance due of $10,800 by one James J. McSweeney on a contract with defendant for the purchase of three surplus tugs. Plaintiff paid this sum pursuant to an assignment of the contract which he had received from McSweeney. Plaintiff alleges that the payment by him was conditioned upon the transfer of the title to the tugs to him, but that defendant transferred title to...

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