E. & F. CONST. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 47700.

75 F.Supp. 460 (1948)

E. & F. CONST. CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

February 2, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman J. Galloway, of Washington, D. C. (King & King, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Francis X. Daly, of Boston, Mass., and Peyton Ford, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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


MADDEN, Judge.

The Government has demurred to the plaintiff's petition. We therefore summarize the allegations of the petition. On October 23, 1942, the plaintiff made a contract to construct certain housing units in Bridgeport and Stratford, Connecticut, for the Government, for $1,752,000. The contract provided that there should be a 40-hour, five-day week on the work, with penalty overtime for work in excess of eight hours a day or 40 hours a week; and that such...

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