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PRICE CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 257.

261 U.S. 179 (1923)

43 S.Ct. 299

67 L.Ed. 602

PRICE FIRE & WATER PROOFING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 19, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S.S. Ashbaugh for appellant.

Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

By the Dent Act (March 2, 1919, c. 94, 40 Stat. 1272) the Secretary of War was authorized to adjust and discharge, upon a fair and equitable basis, agreements, express or implied, made prior to November 12, 1918, in connection with the prosecution of the war, "when such agreement has been performed in whole or in part, or expenditures have been made or obligations incurred upon the faith of the same by any such...

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