Austin Co. v. United States

There is only one question about which serious controversy arises. Several of the questions that would otherwise call for discussion are concededly settled by the earlier case of Austin Company, 58 C. Cls. 98. The one question referred to involves the rental rates which should be allowed to McLean Company, who, as subcontractor, performed the work. *561In considering this question when the matter of settlement between the Austin Company and the Government was pending, the Bureau of Yards and Docks took the position that the rental rates should not exceed 2y2 per cent per month on the estimated…