Harwood v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

THOMAS, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on exceptions to the master’s report filed by plaintiff, defendant, and various other parties in interest.

The suit was brought as an action at law in the superior court of Connecticut, removed to this court, and finally to the equity side of this court on a substituted bill of complaint seeking an accounting and decree for damages because of asserted breaches of contract for ship construction and relief from the legal effect of a release contained in the fifth and last of the contracts (Exhibit 5), dated March 26, 1920, asserted to have…