Otis v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This action the claimant brought by the voluntary filing of his petition. The provisions of the mail-transportation contracts under consideration are sufficiently stated in the opinion df the court.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This action the claimant brought by the voluntary filing of his petition. The provisions of the mail-transportation contracts under consideration are sufficiently stated in the opinion df the court. With regard to the extra service sued for, the following facts were found: The claimant performed his contracts according to the terms thereof, and has been paid the contract price from July 1,1877, to March 31, 1883. Among the mail matter which the claimant carried during that period, at regular intervals from the beginning to the end of the term, was the…
1Opinion of the CourtBichaedson, J.
The claimant had two written contracts with the Post-Office Department for transporting mails in New York City, between the post-office and certain railway stations, one covering the period from July 1, 1877, to June 30, 1881, and the other from the latter date to June 30, 1885.
For all service under each contract he was to be paid a gross sum per year ; under the first contract $57,900 and under the second $63,200, payable quarterly. He has been so paid, and he makes no claim for service performed under either contract.
The action is brought to recover for extra service, or other and different…
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