J.L. Simmons Co. v. United States

*390REPORT

ALLEGRA, Hearing Officer.

The seeds for this congressional reference case were sown in 1949, when the Veterans’ Administration (VA) supplied its contractor, J.L. Simmons (plaintiff), with defective specifications for the foundational piles underlying a VA hospital to be built in Chicago. From this root error a series of contract claims eventually blossomed. It took the better part of twenty years for J.L. Simmons finally to harvest these claims, but when the Court of Claims ultimately ruled in plaintiffs favor, it, nonetheless, was compelled to dismiss plaintiffs request for interest.…