HOWARD P. FOLEY CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 45739.

63 F.Supp. 209 (1945)

HOWARD P. FOLEY CO., Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

December 3, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander M. Heron, of Washington, D. C. (Hinton & Hinton, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Robert Burstein, of Washington, D. C., and John F. Sonnett, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, JONES, and MADDEN, Judges.


WHALEY, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff had a contract with the Civil Aeronautics Authority to furnish and install the field lighting at the Washington National Airport.

The airport was constructed at Gravelly Point, Virginia, and was on "made land." The site was created by hydraulic dredging and one of the problems before the Government engineers was how to expedite stabilization of the dredged material, which of course was heavily charged with water. Instead...

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