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CHESAPEAKE & c. TEL. CO. v. U.S.

No. 389.

281 U.S. 385 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 343

74 L.Ed. 921

CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 5, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Stanton C. Peelle, with whom Messrs. C.F.R. Ogilby, Paul E. Lesh, Dale D. Drain, and Jerome F. Barnard were on the brief, for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Richardson, with whom Attorney General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General Rugg, and Messrs. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and Heber H. Rice were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit under the Dent Act, March 2, 1919, c. 94, 40 Stat. 1272, to recover upon a contract said to be implied in fact, to pay the cost of installing a very large telephone switchboard for the War Department during the late war, less the amounts realized from the parts when the switch-board was removed. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition, and a writ of certiorari was granted by this Court.

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