Legal Opinion
Gilbane Building Company v. The United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided June 12, 1964No. 414-58PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHITAKER, Judge.
Plaintiff sues for damages alleged to have been incurred by a delay in the delivery of the site upon which it had contracted to erect a transit shed. The question presented is whether the Government guaranteed the availability of the site by any particular time.
In its contract, plaintiff agreed to build a warehouse, a transit shed 1 and related utilities systems at the Naval Supply Depot in Newport, Rhode Island. The warehouse was to be built on existing land, but, at the time the contract was signed, the site where the transit shed was to be erected was an arm of…
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