SKINNER & EDDY CORP. v. McCARL

No. 30.

275 U.S. 1 (1927)

UNITED STATES EX REL. SKINNER & EDDY CORPORATION v. McCARL, COMPTROLLER GENERAL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 10, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis Titus, with whom Mr. J. Barrett Carter was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Gardner P. Lloyd, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in October, 1924. The relator, Skinner & Eddy Corporation, seeks to compel the Comptroller General to pass upon its claims against the Government. These arise under contracts made during the years 1917, 1918 and 1919 with the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Most of the contracts refer...

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