Moore v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The facts are stated in the opinion. As the agreement was prepared by the Government it will be construed most strongly against it.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The facts are stated in the opinion. As the agreement was prepared by the Government it will be construed most strongly against it. Garrison v. United States, 7 Wall. '688, 690; Chambers v. United States, 24 C. Cl. 387, 392; Simpson & Co. v. United States, 31 C. Cl. 217, 243; Edgar & Thompson Works v. United States, 34 C. Cl. 205, 219. The Government was bound by the customs of the Port of San Francisco. 2 Parsons on Contract, side pp. 535, 539; Robinson v. United States, 13 Wall. 363, 366; Hostetter v. Park, 137 U. S. 30, 40; Honge v. Woodruff, 19 Fed. Rep.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The appellant is a general commission merchant and shipper at San Francisco. He filed his petition in the Court of Claims, consisting of two paragraphs, in the first of which he claimed reimbursement from the United States of the sum of $1,053.36, demurrage paid by him for the detention over lay days of two ships chartered by him to transport coals to Honolulu and there to be delivered to the United States. By the second paragraph he prayed the recovery of the sum of $1,120.87, the difference between the contract price of 366 tons of coal, which the United States refused to receive, and the…
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