Legal Opinion

Sunswick Corporation v. United States

United States Court of Claims

Decided January 5, 1948No. 46696PublishedCited by 38 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LITTLETON, Judge.

Plaintiff sues to recover $11,492.93, plus overhead and profit, for increased labor costs incurred in the performance of a lump sum construction contract entered into with defendant September 21, 1944, covering a certain canal improvement and reconstruction project of the Corps of Engineers, War Department, on the St. Mary’s Falls Canal in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The increased costs resulted from the payment by plaintiff of a higher wage rate to carpenters working on the .project than that specified in the contract specifications, by reason of plaintiff’s compliance with…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Horowitz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
  2. United States v. BostwickSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  3. Jones v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1865
  4. Deming v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1865
  5. National War Labor Board v. Montgomery Ward & Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1944

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3Cited by38 opinions

  1. United States v. Winstar Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1996
  2. South Louisiana Grain Services, Inc. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1982
  3. J. A. Jones Construction Company v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1968
  4. Saul Freedman, D/B/A M. & E. Equipment & Parts Company v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1963
  5. Winstar Corp. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1992

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