Massman Const. Co. v. United States

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff sues for $88,000 which, it claims, should be added to the price written in a formal contract which it made with the United States, because the plaintiff, by mistake, omitted an item of $88,000 when it computed its bid for the contract.

On October 23, 1940, the United States Engineer Office, New Orleans, Louisiana, advertised for bids for repairing the rubble-mound East jetty at Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana. Bids were to be opened November 7, at 2 P. M. Alternate (b) of the invitation was the one on which the contract here in question was awarded and it provided, as…