Baker
United States v. Baker
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sawtelle, J.
This is an appeal by the United States of America from a judgment entered against them in favor of appellees in the sum of $3,874.98, with interest from date until paid, in an action brought by appellees to recover moneys they claimed to be due them from appellant for additional work, labor, and material rendered and furnished by appellees to appellant under or in connection with a written contract between them entered into on September 23, 1927, which provided, among other things, for the construction of approximately 17,867 linear feet of masonry guard rail, or guard rail wall, between stations 0-j-00 and 359-f-00 on route 1-A, Yosemite National Park, Cal., for which the contractors were to be paid on the basis of $12.75 per cubic yard. The amount of said judgment was made up of two items: First, in the sum of $1,128.32, represented extra cost of furnishing 1,640 linear feet of granite, but the government does not hear complam of the allowance of said sum as a part of the judgment; second, in the sum of $2,746.66, represented the amount of extra cost of a change which, as the complaint alleged and the court found, was made by the government in the plans for the construction of…