STONE & GRAVEL CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 302.

234 U.S. 270 (1914)

STONE, SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 8, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William Marshall Bullitt, with whom Mr. Henry C. Willcox and Mr. T.M. Miller were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Francis H. McAdoo, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action by the United States against the Stone, Sand and Gravel Company, a corporation, hereinafter styled the contractor, and its surety, the American Surety Company of New York, to recover the excess cost of completion of a certain contract for excavating 7,500,000 cubic yards of earth within certain designated localities in the work of improving the harbor...

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