CRS Sirrine, Inc. v. Dravo Corp.

Pope, Presiding Judge.

Defendant (CRS Sirrine, Inc.) and plaintiffs (Dravo Corporation and Weyher/Livsey Constructors, Inc.) were joint venture partners who contracted with the Navy to build a power plant for a fixed price. Defendant provided design expertise and produced a technical proposal which was used to draw up the bid for the project; plaintiffs prepared the bid based on defendant’s documents and then were responsible for the actual construction of the project. Numerous problems, many of which were caused by deficiencies in defendant’s design documents and other breaches of defendant’s…