McFerran v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “* * * The contract was performed in the country of the marble quarries, and as a result of that situation marble becomes a common material in the trimmings of houses. The findings on that point say that it is not shown that the cost of the marble used by the claimant by the direction of the quartermaster was in excess of the cost of good sound stone of best quality and even color. No allowance is made for this item.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bruce Construction Corp. v. United States