Claim for Additional Amount for Work Performed because of Erroneous Estimate

A company claimed additional money for clearing work done in connection with road construction, claiming that it was misled as to the acreage to be cleared, and requested that its contract be reformed by increasing the purchaser credit limit. Although the agency erred in its clearing estimate, reformation of purchaser road credit would not be proper since the sales prospectus contained an admonition as to the reliability of estimates, and information was provided from which the correct acreage could be calculated. Clearing the acreage beyond the estimated quantity did not provide an additional benefit to the Government; therefore, recovery of additional costs based on quantum meruit was not proper.