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- Title: Churchill v. White
- Author : Fourth Appellate District District Court Of Appeal Of California
- Release Date : January 04, 1953
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Defendant, George W. Abbett, entered into a contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation to construct a transmission line in Northern California. Plaintiffs H. H. Boomer, Jr., and S. C. Giles, a copartnership, entered into a subcontract with defendant to perform the excavation for and installation of the transmission line towers, and certain other work, called for by the prime contract. The bureau, purporting to act under the terms of the prime contract, issued a change order that affected the method and amount of excavation on 1 mile out of the total of 25 miles of the transmission project. This change order asked for new bids on some of the excavation work in this limited area. The plaintiffs promptly and vigorously objected, and contended that the prime contract and their subcontract covered the additional work called for by the change order, and refused to bid on the excavation work called for by the change order. The work on this portion of the job was awarded to another. Later, another change order and a stop order were issued by the government stopping all work in the disputed area and deleting this work from the prime contract. Plaintiffs have been fully paid for all past work. They incurred substantial preparatory expenses and also suffered a major loss of claimed profits. This action was then