Case Name: CLEVELAND SKINKER AND WILBUR R. GARRETT, TRADING UNDER THE FIRM NAME AND STYLE OF SKINKER & GARRETT, v. THE UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1926-12-07
Citations: 61 Ct. Cl. 226
Docket Number: No. A-28
Parties: CLEVELAND SKINKER AND WILBUR R. GARRETT, TRADING UNDER THE FIRM NAME AND STYLE OF SKINKER & GARRETT, v. THE UNITED STATES
Judges: Graham, Judge; Downey, Judge; Booth, Judge; and Campbell, Chief Justice, concur.
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 226–231

Head Matter:
CLEVELAND SKINKER AND WILBUR R. GARRETT, TRADING UNDER THE FIRM NAME AND STYLE OF SKINKER & GARRETT, v. THE UNITED STATES
[No. A-28.
Decided December 7, 1926]
Mr. Bolitha Laws for the plaintiff. Mr. William E. Leahy and Cromelin & Laws were on the briefs.
Mr. Dan M. Jackson, with whom was Mr. Assistant Attorney General Merman J. Galloway, for the defendant. Mr, Edward D. Mays was on the briefs.

Opinion:
Hay, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is a suit brought by the plaintiffs to recover the sum of $70,515.52 by reason of a contract which they had with the United States and which they alleged was breached by the defendant.
We are of opinion that the contract was breached by the United States, and that the plaintiffs are entitled to recover the sum of $64,787.20.
In the case of Weller Construction Company v. United States, A-188, decided this day, post, p. 261, we have fully discussed the principles of law which govern the case at bar and deem it unnecessary to repeat that discussion here. See the Weller Construction Company case, supra, and cases therein cited.
Graham, Judge; Downey, Judge; Booth, Judge; and Campbell, Chief Justice, concur.