United States Court of Claims December 7, 1936, No. 42831 (de Luca v. United States)

Williams, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, on June 25, 1917, entered into two contracts with the Standard Shipbuilding Corporation of New York, under the terms of which the Shipbuilding Corporation agreed to build for the plaintiff two single-screw, ’tween deck, steel cargo steamships each of 7,300 deadweight tons at an agreed price of $175 per ton, making the cost or