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HOOPER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 416-55.

173 F.Supp. 622 (1959)

HOOPER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

June 3, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Smith, Washington, D. C., Robert V. Smith, Joseph W. Kiernan, Dorothea A. Baker and Smith, Ristig & Smith, Washington, D. C., on the briefs, for plaintiff.

Lawrence S. Smith, Washington, D. C., with whom was George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

BRYAN, District Judge, sitting by designation.

A contract for the construction for the United States of a levee in the Florida Everglades is the source of these three claims. The first involves the method of measurement of the levee embankment for computing the plaintiff's compensation on the agreed price per cubic yard; the second, the recapture of liquidated damages charged for delay in the completion of the embankment; and the last, the right to rental for equipment...

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