Dravo Contracting Co. v. James Rees & Sons Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

On April 13, 1920, the Dravo Contracting Company, a New Jersey Corporation, the legal plaintiff, entered into a written contract with James Rees & Sons Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, defendant, by which the former undertook to furnish material and construct for the latter two steamboat hulls of the best open hearth steel, galvanized, for the sum of $68,310. Both parties were engaged in ship building at Pittsburgh and the hulls were to be constructed according to specifications, etc., attached to the contract; one to be finished within five and one-half…