 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1952 - 932 pages
...contracting officers and department heads. When we recently repeated in Moorman that their decisions were " 'conclusive, unless impeached on the ground of fraud, or such gross mistake as necessarily implied bad faith,'1 " id., at 461 (emphasis supplied), I supposed that we meant that part of the reservation for... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 792 pages
...face of the agreement— then the estimate of the engineer, upon the basis of the contract price, was conclusive, unless impeached on the ground of fraud,...such gross mistake as necessarily implied bad faith. The test was not whether the price and value of the masonry fixed and returned by the engineer was... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1020 pages
...face of the agreement — then the estimate of the engineer, upon the basis of the contract price, was conclusive, unless impeached on the ground of fraud,...such gross mistake as necessarily implied bad faith. The test was not whether the price and value of the masonry fixed and returned by the engineer was... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1952 - 874 pages
...contracting officers and department heads. When we recently repeated in Moorman that their decisions were " 'conclusive, unless impeached on the ground of fraud,...such gross mistake as necessarily implied bad faith,' " id., at 461 (emphasis supplied), I supposed that we meant that part of the reservation for which... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1952 - 592 pages
...both the Supreme Court and its own) that findings of contracting officers and departments heads are conclusive "unless impeached on the ground of fraud...such gross mistake as necessarily implied bad faith." (See United States v. Moorman, 338 US 457, 461.) The Supreme Court, however, reversed and held that... | |
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Nor could I have believed it. Granted that these contracts are legal, it should not follow that one who takes a public contract puts himself wholly in the power of contracting officers and department heads. When we recently repeated in Moorman that their... 