Ozark Dam Constructors, a Joint Venture v. United States

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiffs sue for damages alleged to have been caused them by the wrongful failure of the Government to furnish cement needed by them to maintain progress in their work of constructing the Bull Shoals Dam in Arkansas. They allege in their petition that the contract provided that the Government would supply the cement for the project; that the Government had contracted for the cement with a cement mill in Independence, Kansas, and had arranged for its transportation via the Missouri Pacific Railroad from Independence to Cotter, Arkansas, where the plaintiffs were to accept…