PECK IRON & METAL CO., INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 408-69.

603 F.2d 171 (1979)

PECK IRON AND METAL CO., INC. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 18, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Urban A. Lester, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Frances L. Nunn, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen., Barbara Allen Babcock, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

Before KASHIWA, BENNETT and SMITH, Judges.


OPINION

BENNETT, Judge:

The question in this case is what damage did plaintiff, a shipbreaker, suffer when the Government breached its contract to sell plaintiff a 30,000-ton surplus World War II aircraft carrier for scrapping. In an earlier decision, Peck Iron & Metal Co. v. United States, 496 F.2d 543, 204 Ct.Cl. 381 (1974), we concluded the Government had breached its contract and that plaintiff was entitled...

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