SANFORD & BROOKS v. UNITED STATES

No. 175.

267 U.S. 455 (1925)

SANFORD & BROOKS CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 9, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William L. Marbury, with whom Mr. Horace S. Whitman and Mr. Charles Clagett were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Merrill E. Otis, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Sanford & Brooks Co. agreed with the United States to dredge a channel at a fixed rate per cubic yard of material dredged. Payment for the number of yards dredged was made at the contract rate. Later, this suit was brought to recover additional sums, as upon a quantum meruit. One claim was that the material to be removed within the contract lines had been misdescribed in the specifications; and the...

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