Blinderman Construction Co., Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• “It is a familiar principle of contract law that the parties’ contemporaneous construction of an agreement, before it has become the subject of a dispute, is entitled to great weight in its interpretation.”
• “It is a familiar principle of contract law that the parties’ contemporaneous construction of an agreement, before it has become the subject of a dispute, is entitled to great weight in its interpretation.”
• contemporaneous construction of an agreement prior to dispute is entitled to great weight
• contemporaneous construction of an agreement prior to dispute is entitled to great weight
• “Where both parties contribute to the delay neither can recover damage, unless there is in the proof a clear apportionment of the delay and the expense attributable to each party.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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