St. Louis Testing Laboratories, Inc., a Corporation v. Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Company, a Corporation

MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.

St. Louis Testing Laboratories, Inc., appellant-plaintiff, brought suit against Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Company, appellee-defendant, for payments allegedly due for performance of metallurgic tests made for defendant upon the steel superstructure of the Chain of Rocks Bridge across the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri and Madison County, Illinois.

Jurisdiction here is based upon diversity of citizenship and the requisite amount in controversy. The case was tried to the court without a jury and the District Court’s opinion is reported at 254…