William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This action was brought in the Court of. Claims to recover damages on account of delay alleged to be the fault of the United States in preventing completion according to contract of the battleship Massachusetts. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition (46 Ct.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This action was brought in the Court of. Claims to recover damages on account of delay alleged to be the fault of the United States in preventing completion according to contract of the battleship Massachusetts. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition (46 Ct. Cls. 521)'. Large sums were demanded for delays covering other periods than are involved in this appeal, and the case as now presented concerns the. right to recover the sum of $27,984.99, being the damages which the Court of-Claims found accrued to the claimant for the period of delay after February…
1Opinion of the Court 1
*227After making the foregoing statement,
2Opinion of the Court · DayJustice Day
The contract in this case and the release above set forth are in the form shown in United States v. Cramp, 206 U. S. 118,. and except for the considérations to be later dealt with, the present case is ruled by that unless relief in equity can be had, for it was there held that a release executed in the matter of the contract for the •battleship Indiana included, all claims which grew out of the performance of the contract, although not arising from the actual construction of the vessel. In the subsequent case of Cramp and Sons v. United States, 216 U. S.…
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