Woodward v. Harris & Aspinwall
The Superior Court of New York City
The bill in this cause was filed in the supreme corn-tin equity, by Jabez M. Woodward against Arnold Harris and William H. Aspinwall, to compel the specific performance of an agreement, by which, as it was alleged, Harris bound himself to assign to Woodward a contract with the general government for the conveyance of the mails on the Pacific Ocean. The facts will be found in the opinion of the court.
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The bill in this cause was filed in the supreme corn-tin equity, by Jabez M. Woodward against Arnold Harris and William H. Aspinwall, to compel the specific performance of an agreement, by which, as it was alleged, Harris bound himself to assign to Woodward a contract with the general government for the conveyance of the mails on the Pacific Ocean. The facts will be found in the opinion of the court. The defendants separately demurred to the bill, for want of equity, for want of parties, and various other causes. The demurrers were overruled at the special term of the supreme court, and an…
1Opinion of the CourtBy the Court. Campbell, J.
In March, 1847, Congress passed an act, by which certain proposals which had been previously made for carrying the United States mail between Hew York and Liveiqoool, and Hew York and Hew Orleans, by way of Havanna, were accepted, and contracts were authorized to be made to carry into effect the purposes of the government. We shall have occasion to allude hereafter, in the course of this opinion, to the various provisions of this act, and to what was manifestly the intention of Congress in its passage. By the fifth section of this act, the secretary of the navy was directed to make a contract…
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