Legal Opinion

Rice v. United States

United States Court of Claims

Decided December 1, 1941No. 43269Published

1Opinion of the Court

Littleton, Judge,-

delivered the opinion of the court:

The D. C. Engineering Co., Inc., herein referred to as plaintiff, seeks to recover $26,044.64, representing its total excess cost of performance of work called for by its contract over the amended contract price of $88,378.82.

Plaintiff takes the position, in substance, that the whole of this excess cost resulted from and was attributable to *98an initial delay of 212 days and a subsequent additional delay of 48 days in defendant’s general construction operations ; that the 126 days’ delay of the initial delay of 212 days was the result of…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. United States v. SpearinSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
  2. American Surety Company v. PaulySupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  3. Globe Refining Co. v. Landa Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
  4. United States v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  5. O'BRIEN v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1897

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