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GORDON WOODROFFE CORP. v. UNITED STATES

No. 49311.

104 F.Supp. 984 (1952)

GORDON WOODROFFE CORP. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

June 3, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond M. Tierney, New York City, for the plaintiff. Jackson, Nash, Brophy, Barringer & Brooks and John B. Garrity, New York City, were on the briefs.

John B. Miller, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Holmes Baldridge, for the defendant. Joseph T. Keating, Washington, D. C., was on the brief.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and HOWELL, Judges.

WHITAKER, Judge.

This case turns on whether a man by the name of Aloysius J. Walsh, in the State Department, had authority to bind the United States. He contracted to purchase, allegedly acting for the American Mission for Aid to Greece, a turbo-alternator-generator for $906,000.00. It was intended for use by the Athens Piraeus Electricity Company, Limited. This company later purchased it for $524,400.00.

If Walsh had the authority to act for the Mission to...

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