DONOVAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 230-53.

149 F.Supp. 898 (1957)

DONOVAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY and James Construction Company, a Joint Venture, Doing Business as Donovan-James Company, v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

April 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reginald G. Hearn, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

John R. Franklin, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


LITTLETON, Judge.

Plaintiffs, as prime contractors, have brought this suit on behalf of their subcontractor to recover additional costs incurred by the subcontractor under a Government contract which provided for the construction of a 230,000-volt, double-circuit, steel tower transmission line, approximately 18.3 miles long, within the Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project in California.

After work had commenced on the contract, a storm of unusual...

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