Ford Motor Co. v. United States

OPINION

MEROW, Senior Judge.

Ford Motor Company has commenced this suit against the United States, based on a World War II contract, to obtain a judgment for the over $7,000,000.00 it has paid as its share of the environmental clean-up costs for the Willow Run, Michigan factory site where it built B-24 bombers from 1942 — 1944. The parties have filed dispositive motions.

FACTS

On September 26, 1941, a cost-plus-fixed-fee supply contract (No. W535-ac-21216) (“Contract No. 21216”) to manufacture and deliver 795 B-24E airplanes with spare parts at a total estimated cost of $218,625,000.00 was…