Louis Brandeis

“ The Court of Claims did not find as a fact that any such contract, express or implied, was made. It found that the depot quartermaster, while urging plaintiff to rent and equip the factory, 'stated (orally) that contracts would be placed with plaintiff which would fully reimburse it for the proposed expenditure.' The court concluded, as matter of law, that there was no contract; that, if the contract had in fact been made as alleged, it would not have bound the government, because, so far as the record disclosed, the depot quartermaster had no authority so to bind it ”

“ The suit was brought under the Dent Act (Act March 2, 1919, c. 94, 40 Stat. 1272 (Comp. St. §§ 3115 14/15 a-3115 14/15 e) ) by a manufacturer of clothing, to recover the actual loss incurred in renting and equipping a factory required, during the World War, in order to make uniforms for the government, and for which factory there was no use after the Armistice. ”