Railroad Waterproofing Corp. v. United States

Plaintiff seeks to recover additional expenses incurred in-executing a Government contract. The increased costs resulted, it alleges, from errors in the Government’s specifications.

The contract was for cleaning and resealing joints on the runways, taxiways, parking stems, and hardstanding areas' at Andrews Field, Maryland. The specifications described three types of joints with the total amount of lineal footage-of each type, as follows:

Traverse Expansion Joints_ 27,600-

Normal Expansion Joints_ 127,100-

Construction, Contraction and Dummy Joints- 788,600-

One of the drawings with which…