Christy Corporation v. The United States, and Harco Engineering, a Division of Harbor Boat Building Company, Third-Party

COWEN, Chief Judge.

This case presents a question of the scope of this court’s jurisdiction over third parties impleaded under Section 14 (b) of the Contract Settlement Act of 1944, 41 U.S.C. § 114(b) (1964). The relevant facts are as follows:

Plaintiff Christy is a corporation engaged in the shipbuilding business. It contracted to construct a research oceanographic vessel for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Plaintiff alleges that defendant impliedly warranted the plans and specifications for the vessel to be correct and complete, that in fact there were basic…