Falcon Construction Company, Plaintiff-Cross-Defendant-Appellant v. Economy Forms Corporation, Defendant-Cross-Plaintiff-Appellee

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A construction company, which appeals from a district court judgment awarding damages and attorneys’ fees for breach of contract to a materialman who furnished it with supplies, contends that the district court judgment should be reversed because the court did not give careful, independent consideration to the record before it, but merely adopted the materialman’s proposed findings. Although the district court did little more than sign proposed findings and its actions do not demonstrate that it conducted a significant, independent evaluation of the record, the…