NEW YORK MAIL & NEWS. TRANSP. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 162-54.

154 F.Supp. 271 (1957)

NEW YORK MAIL AND NEWSPAPER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 31, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Broad, Syracuse, N. Y., for plaintiff. Mackenzie, Smith, Lewis, Michell & Hughes, Syracuse, N. Y., were on the briefs.

John B. Miller, Washington, D. C., with whom was Assistant Attorney General George Cochran Doub, for the defendant. Alfred J. Kovell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief.

Before LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges and Mr. Justice REED (retired), of the Supreme Court of the United States.


REED, Justice (sitting by designation).

The plaintiff, New York Mail and Newspaper Transportation Company, brought this suit in this Court on April 15, 1954, against the United States to recover damages for an alleged breach by the Government of a contract between the United States and plaintiff. Various items, some variable, enter into the total damages claimed aggregating around two million dollars. That contract was for the rental by the Government of pneumatic...

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