Danner v. Carney

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by J. E. Danner and Fay Thompson against A. B. Carney and J. O. Lowe, to recover $250,000.00, the amount which they claimed was due them under the terms of a written contract, or, in the alternative, damages in a like sum for its alleged breach by the defendants.1 Plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment in favor of defendants.

The Douglas Aircraft Company operated an aircraft manufacturing plant at Santa Monica, California. In 1941 it was awarded a contract for the operation of a similar manufacturing plant then in the process of construction by the…