Case ID: us-ct-cl_61/html/1024-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice BeaNdeis", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SANFORD & BROOKS COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES
    [58 C. Cls. 158; 267 U. S. 455]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    1. Where a Government contract for dredging expressly required prompt, written protest against any order for work outside the specifications, written modification of the contract if altered materially, and written orders for extra work, held that oral protests by the contractor, a claim for additional compensation and a favorable advisory opinion thereon by a Government official, were insufficient to establish that these contract provisions were inapplicable or waived, or that a new, oral agreement for compensation quantum, meruit was substituted by implication.
    
      March 9, 1925.
    2. A motion to remand to tlie Court of Claims for further findings should be submitted at the first term of the entry of the case so that the court may determine whether the motion shall be passed upon in advance or postponed until the hearing on the merits.
   Mr. Justice BeaNdeis

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court