Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. v. United States

The plaintiff is the successor to each of the partners of the N. P. Severin Company, a partnership whose members are now deceased. The partnership, which will be called the plaintiff in this opinion, on June 22,1935, entered into a contract with the United States, which acted through the agency of the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works. The contract was for the construction of a low-cost community housing project at Indianapolis, Indiana, which project became known as the Lockefield Garden Apartments. The contract price was originally $2,440,921, and was later reduced by change…