J. D. STREETT & CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 15901, 15902.

256 F.2d 557 (1958)

J. D. STREETT & CO., Inc., a corporation, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Cross-Appellant, v. J. D. STREETT & CO., Inc., a corporation, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard W. Weitzman and George C. Dyer, St. Louis, Mo. (Ray T. Dreher, St. Louis, Mo., was with them on the brief), for J. D. Streett & Co., Inc.

Seymour Farber, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry Richards, U. S. Atty., Robert E. Brauer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., and Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were with him on the brief), for the United States.

Before SANBORN, VOGEL and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The first of these appeals (No. 15,901) is from a judgment in favor of the United States for $25,000 in an action brought by it against J. D. Streett & Co., Inc., as defendant, for breach of a contract by virtue of which the latter acquired certain war surplus real property consisting of land, buildings and railroad facilities within what was known as Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis County, Missouri. The Government has taken a cross-appeal...

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