Sternberg v. United States

The evidence in this case is clear that the defendant did not delay the contractor a single day. The delay was caused solely by the lack of proper and adequate equipment to perform the work as called for under the terms of the contract. For only 4 months out of 21 months did the dredge remove the material required to be removed in any one month. The easy part of the work had been performed, yet during this period the equipment failed to keep up with the required amount of material to be removed as stated in the contract. The contractor had gotten behind in the work some two hundred and twenty…