Arundel Corp. v. United States

The plaintiff is a Maryland corporation engaged in the contracting business. An act of Congress approved June 29, 1922 (42 Stat. 709), authorized the expenditure of a specified appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of War for the construction of a water supply conduit for the District of Columbia. The conduit for which plans and specifications were prepared was to extend from above Great Falls, Maryland, to a designated point near the influent chamber to Dalecarlia Beservoir, a distance of nine miles.

Public advertisement was made, soliciting proposals to construct the conduit in…