Virginia Shipbuilding Corp. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

The object of each of these suits is to have an accounting between the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation, on the one hand, and the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and others, on the other, growing out of certain contracts entered into between the parties, hereinafter specifically set forth, whereby the Virginia Company bound itself to construct for the Fleet Corporation, at its shipyard in Alexandria, Va., 12 steel ships,! of 9,400 tons dead weight carrying capacity each, 11 knots speed at deep-load draft, for the lump sum purchase price of…