Thunder Bay Quarries Co. v. Pollard

On May 20, 1938, defendant B. J. Pollard, who was engaged in the business of selling stone, obtained an order from the Works Progress Administration of the Federal government for 30,000 tons of crushed stone of an odd size, to be used by the W.P.A. for pavement of alleys. Pollard rented a parcel of property of approximately 13 acres on West Fort street, Detroit, Michigan. It has a frontage on one side of 625 feet, or thereabouts, abutting on the Rouge river, near where it runs into the Detroit river. The government contract was elastic in that it gave the government the privilege of…