Beech Aircraft Corporation v. Ross

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

Beech Aircraft Corporation, as the manufacturer of airplanes for the United States Army and Navy, entered into a contract with the Douglas Aircraft Corporation to build wings for its A-26 Airplane. The A-26 had never been manufactured when Beech took the contract and its design required the production of many thousands of different' parts for which new “toolings” and “jigs” would have to be made. Beech entered into a sub-contract with Milburn M. Ross, doing business as Ross Engineering and Equipment Company to make the new ■“toolings” and “jigs,” and to manufacture…