Shepard Engineering Company v. United States

Appellant has filed a petition for rehearing, urging that we have overlooked a controlling principle of law, application of which would require reversal of the judgment appealed from. More specifically, the claim is advanced that even if title to the subject property had passed to the Government, within the meaning of the partial payments clause, it is es-topped to assert title, inasmuch as it had invested Diamond with such evidence of ownership as to mislead appellant, a good faith purchaser for value.

Although this contention was not specifically raised in appellant’s original brief, nor…