Branch Banking & Trust Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Special Findings of Fact 1. The individual and partnership plaintiffs in both of these cases are all citizens and residents of the State of North Carolina and the corporate plaintiff is organized under the laws of the State of Florida with its principal place of business in the State of North Carolina. The plaintiff McDevitt & Street Company is a corporation formerly known as the J. J. McDevitt Company.
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Special Findings of Fact 1. The individual and partnership plaintiffs in both of these cases are all citizens and residents of the State of North Carolina and the corporate plaintiff is organized under the laws of the State of Florida with its principal place of business in the State of North Carolina. The plaintiff McDevitt & Street Company is a corporation formerly known as the J. J. McDevitt Company. Mr. Edward W. Grannis, named as a party plaintiff in each of the petitions as originally filed, has since died, and the coadministrators of his estate have been substituted as plaintiffs in…
1Opinion of the Court
HOWELL, Judge.
Plaintiffs 1 sue to recover $292,170.85 withheld by defendant from payments which plaintiffs allege were due them under two contracts with defendant.
In December 1940, defendant entered into a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract (No. W-6826qm-2) with J. J. McDevitt Company, a corporation, E. W. Grannis, an individual, F. N. Thompson, an individual, and V. B. Higgins, an individual, trading as V. B. Higgins Company. Pursuant to the terms of the contract, the corporation and the three individuals were bound both jointly and severally as contractor.
Under the terms of the above contract,…
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