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UNITED STATES v. SWIFT & CO.

Nos. 288 and 289.

270 U.S. 124 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 308

70 L.Ed. 497

UNITED STATES v. SWIFT & COMPANY. SWIFT & COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Mitchell, Assistant to the Attorney General Donovan, and Messrs. Abram F. Myers and Rush H. Williamson, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. G. Carroll Todd submitted for Swift & Co. Messrs. Albert H. Veeder, Henry Veeder, R.C. McManus, Connor B. Shaw and P.L. Holden were also on the brief.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit to recover damages for the loss caused to Swift & Company by the refusal of the United States to accept a quantity of finished and unfinished army bacon ordered by competent authority for delivery in March, 1919. The only ground for not accepting it was that the need had been removed by the unexpected rapidity of demobilization. The claim was first presented to the War Department under the...

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