General Bronze Corporation v. The United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[S]omething which has been given before the promise was made and, therefore, without reference to it, cannot, properly speaking, be legal consideration.” (quoting 1 WILLISTON ON CONTRACTS § 142 (3d ed. 1957)); Sager v. Basham, 401 S.E.2d 676, 677 (Va. 1991
• “Long ago, the United States Supreme Court held that a failure to obtain from the department head a written approval for changes or extras is fatal to a contractor’s recovery under a Government contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).