Case ID: us-ct-cl_62/html/0768-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice BkaNdeis", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES v. WYCKOFF PIPE & CREOSOTING CO.
    [59 C. Cls. 980; 271 U. S. 263]
    Judgment was rendered against the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was reversed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    1. Where a contractor with the Government completed the job under the contract, reserving the right to claim damages due to long delays by the Government in performing its part, the measure of such damages was not the difference between the contract price and the higher market value of the work at time of performance, but the loss actually sustained by the contractor as the result of the delay.
    2. In computing such damages, helé that the contractor could not be allowed the difference between the cost of supplies bought and held for the work under the contract, and the higher market price they had acquired by the time when they were used in it, in the absence of evidence that this was the measure of the loss.
   Mr. Justice BkaNdeis

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court May 24, 1926.