Schmoll v. United States

The plaintiff is an assignee for creditors of the Murch Brothers Construction Company, a Missouri corporation, which entered into and performed a contract involved in this suit. No issue is raised as to the formality of the contract. The decision turns upon the construction of •certain articles of the same and the specifications for the work to be performed thereunder.

The contract obligated the contractor to furnish all labor and materials, and perform all work required to erect six buildings known as Air Corps Barracks at Randolph Field, Texas. The consideration was $1,223,000, which has…