Howard P. Foley Co. v. United States

WHALEY, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff had a contract with the Civil Aeronautics Authority to furnish and install the field lighting at the Washington National Airport.

The airport was constructed at Gravelly Point, Virginia, and was on “made land.” The site was created by hydraulic dredging and one of the problems, before the Government engineers was how to expedite stabilization of the dredged material, which of course was heavily charged with watera Instead of using the conventional method of erecting boundary dykes and pouring the dredged material within the boundary thus made, with…