Electric Fireproofing Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant herein, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, having-its office and place of business in the city and State of New York, entered into, a contract with the defendants through their agents June 28, 1899, a copy of which contract with the specifications annexed thereto is made part of the petition herein as Exhibit A, whereby the…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant herein, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, having-its office and place of business in the city and State of New York, entered into, a contract with the defendants through their agents June 28, 1899, a copy of which contract with the specifications annexed thereto is made part of the petition herein as Exhibit A, whereby the claimant undertook, among other things, to “ furnish and deliver at its own risk ancl expense at such place in the navy-yard,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The claimant by its contract with the defendants undertook, among other things, to “ furnish and "deliver at its own risk and expense ” at the navy-yard in Norfolk, Va., certain articles of oak lumber fireproofed under the claimants’ electric fireproofing process, as follows:
“ The quartered oak to be of the best quality, sawed fair and full to the given sizes, and well seasoned; must show some figure on one face; to be free from center or heart pith, sapwood, shakes, cross-grains, stain's, or wormholes; each thickness to average ten inches wide and twelve feet long; eight inches to nine…
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