South Boston Iron Works 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. Claimant is a corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Massachusetts. Under the act of Congress approved March 3.1883, chapter 96, provision was made for making and testing certain 12-inch cast-iron rifled breech-loading cannon, and a sum of money was appropriated for the manufacture and testing of that class of ordnance.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. Claimant is a corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Massachusetts. Under the act of Congress approved March 3.1883, chapter 96, provision was made for making and testing certain 12-inch cast-iron rifled breech-loading cannon, and a sum of money was appropriated for the manufacture and testing of that class of ordnance. Up to that time no guns of this size had been cast of iron, and such casting was, both to the Ordnance Department and to claimant,…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldoN, J.
The claimant is a corporation under the laws of the State of Massachusetts, and doing business in the city of Boston.
By the act of March 3, 1883, chapter 96, for testing 12-inch cast-iron breech-loading cannon, a sum of money was appropriated for the manufacture of that class of ordnance. In pursuance of the power given by said act, communication was opened by the proper officer of^the defendants with the claimant for the purpose of having manufactured the kind and description of cannon contemplated by the act.
It is alleged that up to the time of the passage of the statute no such cannon had…
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