CHARLES H. TOMPKINS COMPANY v. LLOYD E. MITCHELL

No. 14280.

259 F.2d 177 (1958)

CHARLES H. TOMPKINS COMPANY and J. A. Jones Construction Company, Joint Venturers, Appellants, v. LLOYD E. MITCHELL, Inc., and Harry Alexander, Inc., and E. C. Ernst, Inc., as Joint Venturers, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1958.

Certiorari Denied October 27, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. O. P. Easterwood, Jr., Washington. D. C., with whom Mr. Alan Johnstone, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Howard H. Conaway, Baltimore, Md., of the bar of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Mr. Milton M. Gottesman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee Lloyd E. Mitchell, Inc.

Mr. Nicholas J. Chase, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Robert W. McChesney, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees Harry Alexander, Inc., and E. C. Ernst, Inc.

Before WHITAKER, Judge, United States Court of Claims, and WILBUR K. MILLER and BAZELON, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied October 27, 1958. See 79 S.Ct. 115.

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

Charles H. Tompkins Company and J. A. Jones Construction Company were, as joint venturers, the general contractor on a large construction project. By separate subcontracts, they engaged Lloyd E. Mitchell, Inc., to do the mechanical work required by the plans and specifications, and Harry Alexander, Inc., and E. C. Ernst, Inc., joint venturers, to do the electrical work required...

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