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JOSEPH MELTZER, INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 43489.

77 F.Supp. 1018 (1948)

JOSEPH MELTZER, INC., OF NEW JERSEY v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

June 1, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Nevius, of New York City (Harvey D. Jacob, of Washington, D. C., Mortimer De Groot, of New York City, and Horace S. Whitman, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Frank J. Keating, of Washington, D. C., and H. G. Morison, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff made a contract on December 1, 1933, to construct for the Government Lock 21 in the Mississippi River, near Quincy, Illinois. The plaintiff sues under the general jurisdiction of the court, and, as to certain of its claims relating to labor, under the Act of July 23, 1937, 50 Stat. 533.

The first item of the plaintiff's claims relates to the collapse of its cofferdam, which entailed great additional costs and delay. As to this...

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