P. L. Saddler v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• large increase in earthwork due to change in levee specifications held cardinal change falling outside scope of contract
• near doubling of the amount of excavation required under contract to build a levee embankment was beyond the scope of the original contract and thus, Changes clause inapplicable
• 100 percent increase in amount of earth moved constituted cardinal change
• 10% overhead claimed as result of change order is reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).