175 U.S. 588 (1900) Cited 98 times
In United States v. Gleason, 1900, 175 U.S. 588, 20 S.Ct. 228, 44 L.Ed. 284, the Supreme Court upheld a contract provision giving to the engineer the final and conclusive right to determine the fact of the contractor's conduct as warranting an extension of time beyond that agreed for the completion of the work, but stated the law to be that such finality existed only "in the absence of fraud or of mistake so gross as to necessarily imply bad faith."