Piñero v. Encarnación

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting Government’s argument that a contractor could not recover upon similar facts because the “appropriation had, at the time of the purchase, been covered by other contracts”
• rejecting Government’s argument that a contractor could not recover upon similar facts because the “appropriation had, at the time of the purchase, been covered by other contracts”
• “[W]hen one contract on its face assumes to provide for the execution of all the work authorized by an appropriation, the contractor is bound to know the amount of the appropriation, and cannot recover beyond it....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).