Chapter 269. For the relief of the Export Oil Corporation
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CHAP. 269.— An Act For the relief of the Export Oil Corporation. February 19, 1925.[[S. 1599](/us/bill/68/s/1599).][[Private, No. 184](/us/pvtl/68/184).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Export Oil Corporation.Claim of, referred to Court of Claims. That the Court of Claims is hereby authorized and directed to hear, consider, and render judgment in the matter of the claim of the Export Oil Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, against the United States, growing out of an alleged contract between the said corporation and the United States through the Director of Purchase and Storage of the Quartermaster Corps of the War Department, of the United States in the year of 1919, whereby the said corporation agreed to furnish and the United States to accept and pay for at a stipulated price a certain quantity of gasoline to be delivered to the United States tanker Weildrecht at New Orleans, Louisiana, on or before May 5, 1919, which contract it is alleged was breached by the United States to the damage of the said corporation.
For the purposes of considering this claim, Contract in writing not required.[R. S. sec. 3744, p. 738](/us/rs/s3744/p738).the Court of Claims is directed to disregard the provisions of Revised Statute 3774 requiring such contracts to be in writing, and shall base its judgment as to the legality of the contract wholly upon the law of contracts as applied in commercial usages. If the court finds that there was such a contract and that there was a breach thereof by the United States, and that because of said breach the said corporation was damaged, then the judgment shall be in such amount as may to the court seem proper to compensate the *Proviso*.Limit on judgment.corporation therefor: *Provided*, That the judgment shall be limited to the amount of the actual cost of the gasoline on the date of its final sale, including shrinkage, demurrage, insurance, freight and Notice to Attorney General.storage charges, less the amount received therefor.
Notice of such suit shall be served on the Attorney General of the United States who shall appear and defend the suit on behalf of the Government. Approved, February 19, 1925.