Legal Opinion
Wooldridge Manufacturing Company v. United States of America and the Caterpillar Tractor Company
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 26, 1956No. 12992_1PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant Wooldridge Manufacturing Company brought a civil action against the United States and The Caterpillar Tractor Company for an accounting and damages. The District Court dismissed the complaint. The Chicago Procurement Office of the Army Corps of Engineers, after invitations to bid, awarded to Caterpillar a contract for tractors and scrapers. Wooldridge was also a bidder. Later the Comptroller General of the United States ruled that the award was improperly made, and the contract was cancelled. By the time it was cancelled, however, it had been approximately ninety per cent performed.…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Bowles v. Mahoney. District of Columbia v. MahoneyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
- Schmidt v. United States and Seven Other CasesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1950
- Heald v. MilburnCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1942
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