Burton & Co. v. United States

The claimants in this case seek recovery on 11 different items which are all the outgrowth of contracts entered into between them and the United States for work in connection with the excavation and construction of the approaches to the lock connecting the Mississippi River and Bayou Plaque-mine at Plaquemine, La. The several contracts are referred to in the findings of which they are made a part, and since to review them as a whole would very much lengthen this opinion without apparent profit, they will be discussed only as may be regarded necessary in the separate consideration of the…