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RUSSELL CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 485, 480, 740.

261 U.S. 514 (1923)

RUSSELL MOTOR CAR COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. FREYGANG ET AL., PARTNERS DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE NAME OF MIDLAND BRIDGE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. ALBERT & J.M. ANDERSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 9, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lyman M. Bass for appellant in No. 485.

Mr. George A. King, Mr. William B. King and Mr. George R. Shields, for appellants in No. 480, submitted.

Mr. Chapman W. Maupin and Mr. Arthur H. Russell, for appellant in No. 740, submitted.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Assistant Attorney General Lovett, Mr. Alfred A. Wheat and Mr. Alexander H. McCormick, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the briefs, for the United States.

Mr. Louis Titus, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae in No. 485.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases, here on appeal from the Court of Claims, differ in details of fact, but are controlled by the same principles of law and depend alike upon the construction and application of the same statutory provisions.

The salient facts in the case of the Motor Car Company are as follows: That company, on May 14, 1918, entered into a contract, numbered 1498, with the United States, acting through the...

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