HEIFETZ METAL CRAFTS, INC. v. PETER KIEWIT SONS' CO.

No. 15939.

264 F.2d 435 (1959)

HEIFETZ METAL CRAFTS, INC., a corporation, and Federal Insurance Co., a corporation, Appellants, v. PETER KIEWIT SONS' CO., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fremont Meyers, Omaha, Neb. (Harry J. Farnham, Omaha, Neb., on the brief), for appellants.

Hird Stryker, Omaha, Neb. (Robert R. Veach, Omaha, Neb., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

Heifetz Metal Crafts, Inc., sued to have rescinded and cancelled, for alleged mistake, a subcontract on a Veterans Hospital construction-project at Topeka, Kansas, entered into by it with Peter Kiewit Sons' Co., the general contractor. Kiewit counterclaimed (joining as a party the surety on Heifetz's performance bond) for damages in breach from Heifetz's refusal to carry out the subcontract. The court, on a non-jury trial, denied relief to...

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