Shea v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the ease: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant and the defendants (by Colonel Hodges, a deputy quartermaster-general of the Army) entered into a written contract, of which the following is a copy: Articles of agreement entered into this twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-sis, between Lieut.
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The Reporters’ statement of the ease: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant and the defendants (by Colonel Hodges, a deputy quartermaster-general of the Army) entered into a written contract, of which the following is a copy: Articles of agreement entered into this twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-sis, between Lieut. Colonel Henry 0. Hodges, deputy quartermaster-general, United States Army, of the first part, and Daniel Shea, of the county of New York, State of New York, of the second part. “ This agreement witnesseth that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claimant entered into a written contract wherein it was agreed that he should provide and furnish to the defendants, whenever called upon during the fiscal year ending. June 30, 1887, such vessels, of the description specified, as might be required to take the.place of other vessels then performing service for the United States Army between New York City and Governor’s Island; and that the vessels furnished should be staunch, in first-class order in every respect, well equipped, and should conform fully to the requirements of the law.…
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- Otis v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1884