Burns Bros. Plumbers, Inc., and Cross-Appellant v. Groves Ventures Company and S. J. Groves & Sons Company, and Cross-Appellees

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

This case presents an appeal and a cross-appeal from a judgment entered on November 3, 1967, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division. The judgment awarded to Burns Bros. Plumbers, Inc., plaintiff-appellee and cross-appellant, the sum of $28,832.55 in Burns’ suit against Groves Ventures Company and its subsidiary, S. J. Groves & Sons Company (treated together here as Groves), defendants-appellants.

Burns’ suit against Groves asserted claims totalling $130,000 arising out of work connected with a subcontract that Burns had…