Woolverton v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. September 15,1888, the Postmaster-General of the United States published the following advertisement: Proposals for covered regulation wagon mail messenger, transfer, and mail station service.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. September 15,1888, the Postmaster-General of the United States published the following advertisement: Proposals for covered regulation wagon mail messenger, transfer, and mail station service. “Post-Oppice Department, “ Washington, D. 0., September 15,1888. “Proposals will be received at the contract office of this Department until 4 p. m. of January 3, 1889 (decisions to be announced January 10, 1889), for carrying the mails of the United States in the covered regulation wagons prescribed…
1Opinion of the Court
I)AVIS, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This action arises from a post-office contract for transferring mail within the city limits of New York, as to which plaintiff (the contractor) feels that duty imposed upon him has caused him expense, and this duty he was under no legal obligation *268to perform. Therefore he asks judgment against defendants for service thought to be extra.
The facts are many, but simple. They present in one case several different causes of action.
This class of contract has been so often examined in the Supreme Court and in this court that it is unnecessary to describe…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- Schwartz v. SchwartzNew York Supreme Court · 1920
- Utah, Nevada & California Stage Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1904