S. J. GROVES & SONS CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 45910.

64 F.Supp. 472 (1946)

S. J. GROVES & SONS CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

March 4, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. R. McGuire, of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

J. J. Sweeney, of Washington, D. C., and John F. Sonnett, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and WHITAKER, JONES, LITTLETON, and MADDEN, Judges.


WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff had a contract for the construction of an earth-filled dam at Grassy Lake, Idaho. It sues in its first cause of action for $23,615.70, which it alleges is the excess cost it incurred as the result of encountering conditions in the borrow pits from which the earth was to be obtained which were unknown and which were of an unusual nature materially differing from those ordinarily encountered.

For its second cause of action it sues...

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