FLYING TIGER LINE, INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-58.

170 F.Supp. 422 (1959)

FLYING TIGER LINE, INC., a Corporation v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

February 11, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman L. Meyers, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff. Elmer E. Batzell, Meyers & Batzell and S. P. Meyers, Washington, D. C., on the brief.

Curtis L. Wagner, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant.


MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff, a carrier of freight by airplane, earned $71,817.02 by transporting freight for the United States Air Force. The Government paid the plaintiff $5,829.92, but refused to pay the balance of $65,987.10, claiming that the plaintiff was indebted to it in that amount, because the plaintiff had lost an earlier shipment of goods of the Air Force of that value, and was liable to the Government for the loss. In its amended answer the Government...

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