Holmberg v. United States

The plaintiff brings this suit to recover a balance of $1,160 for aerial photographic work which he contracted to do and did perform for $2,796.37 and on which the Government has paid him $1,636.37 and has withheld, as liquidated damages at the rate of $20 a day, $140 for an alleged delay of seven days in getting his plane at the airport ready to begin work and $1,020 for an alleged delay of fifty-one days in *507transmitting the final prints, etc., to be furnished the Soil Conservation Service at Washington.

It is contended by the defendant that under the contract with plaintiff and the facts in…