Murphy v. United States

Plaintiff1 sues for breach of his contract of March 1Y,1950, with the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior. This contract, No. 12r-18946, provided for construction of the Fort Sumner. Diversion Dam across the Pecos River at a point near Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Plaintiff contends that the termination of his right to proceed with the whole of the contract work, exercised by the Contracting Officer by letter dated January 30, 1951, under Article 9 of the contract, was wrongful because beyond the terms of that provision.

Article 9 provides, in pertinent part, as follows:

If the…