Simpson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This appeal presents for review the action of the lower court rejecting a claim of the appellants. 31 C. Cl. 217. The essential facts as found by the court below are summarized as follows: Pursuant to an act of Congress appropriating a stated sum for building two “ timber dry docks to be located at such navy yards as the Secretary of the Navy may indicate,” act of March 3, 1887, c. 390, 24 Stat. 580, 584, the Navy Department on April 19,…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This appeal presents for review the action of the lower court rejecting a claim of the appellants. 31 C. Cl. 217. The essential facts as found by the court below are summarized as follows: Pursuant to an act of Congress appropriating a stated sum for building two “ timber dry docks to be located at such navy yards as the Secretary of the Navy may indicate,” act of March 3, 1887, c. 390, 24 Stat. 580, 584, the Navy Department on April 19, 1887, advertised for proposals for the building of two dry docks to be located, one at the Brooklyn and the other at the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
Considering the facts above stated, it is at once apparent that the claim against the United States can only be allowed upon the theory that it is sustained by the written contract, since if it be not thereby sanctioned it is devoid of legal foundation. The rule by which parties to a written contract are bound by its terms, and which holds that they cannot be heard to vary by parol its express and unambiguous stipulations, or impair the obligations which the contract engenders by reference to the negotiations which preceded the making of the contract, or by urging that the pecuniary result…
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