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UNITED STATES v. BLOUNT

Civ. Nos. 11141, 11142.

182 F.Supp. 648 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, for the Use of ARC & GAS WELDER ASSOCIATES, INC., v. Winton M. BLOUNT, William H. Blount and Clara B. Blount, partners, trading as Blount Brothers Construction Co., and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs (GREEN FUEL ECONOMIZER COMPANY, Inc., a New York corporation, and National Surety Corporation, Third-Party Defendants). ARC & GAS WELDER ASSOCIATES, INC., a Maryland corporation, v. GREEN FUEL ECONOMIZER CO., Inc., a New York corporation, and National Surety Corporation, a New York corporation. GREEN FUEL ECONOMIZER CO., Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN CASUALTY COMPANY OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc., and Winton M. Blount, William H. Blount and Clara B. Blount, Partners trading as Blount Brothers Construction Company, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

April 7, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Henry Lewin, David C. Green and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., for Arc & Gas Welder Associates, Inc.

William L. Marbury, Mathias J. DeVito and Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, Md., and James C. Blair, Birmingham, Ala., for Blount Brothers Construction Co. and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company.

Byron N. Scott and Frank S. Ketcham, Washington, D. C., for Green Fuel Economizer Company, Inc., and National Surety Corporation.

William B. Somerville, Baltimore, Md., and E. H. Cushman, Philadelphia, Pa., for American Casualty Company of Reading, Pa.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

These consolidated cases arise out of the construction of a biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland. The Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, was in charge of the construction. The laboratory includes two "cloud chambers", air-tight rooms of stainless steel, polished to so smooth a finish that there are no pits, cracks or crevices in which germs may lurk after the cloud chambers have been emptied and cleaned from time...

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