Standard American Dredging Co. v. City of Oakland
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Second Division of the Northern District of California; Frank H. Rudkin, Judge. Action by the Standard American Dredging Company against the City of Oakland. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
This action involves the construction of certain clauses of a dredging contract between the Dredging Company, plaintiff in error, and the city of Oakland. The contract called for work specified as sections A, B, and C, and the present litigation arises out of work done within what is called section C, an approach channel in Oakland harbor. The specifications required that the approach channel here involved should be dredged to a depth of 25 feet below low tide, the bottom width to be not less than 300 feet, and that the cut in the section (C) should be continuous from the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Standard American Dredging Co. v. City of OaklandCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1916