Case ID: us-ct-cl_62/html/0766-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Taet", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNION INSULATING & CONSTRUCTION CO. v. UNITED STATES
    [59 C. Cls. 582; 271 U. S. 121]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    1. Stipulations by tbe United States, in a construction contract, to furnish, a right of way for ingress and egress to and from the places where materials to be furnished by the United States were stored and the place of their use in the work, construed, in relation to other facts, as allowing the contractor to use a right of way on which was a railroad, but not as obliging the Government to put the railroad in repair.
    2. Damages will not be awarded for a slight delay in starting work under a contract, not satisfactorily shown to have been caused wholly by the Government, where the contractor made no protest at the time and no claim until nine months later.
   Mr. Chief Justice Taet

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court April 26, 1926.