Floyd v. United States
United States Court of Claims
This is a case brought into court by original petition, and is founded upon a written contract made bétween the claimant and Major Henry C. Symonds, commissary of subsistence, for slaughtering 50,000 hogs. The price to be paid by the United States was 92¡!¡ cents per hundred pounds, or $1 90 for each hog of 207 pounds.
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This is a case brought into court by original petition, and is founded upon a written contract made bétween the claimant and Major Henry C. Symonds, commissary of subsistence, for slaughtering 50,000 hogs. The price to be paid by the United States was 92¡!¡ cents per hundred pounds, or $1 90 for each hog of 207 pounds. The claimant, in order to fill the contract, hired two large pork-houses in the city of Louisville ; employed a number of competent experts and laborers to do the work, and kept himself ready during the packing season to fill the contract. The United States furnished, under the…
1Opinion of the CourtCasey, C. J.
Some time in September, 1864, Major Henry C. Symonds, commissary of subsistence at Louisville, Kentucky, was directed by General Eaton, Commissary General of Subsistence, to inquire into the feasibility of purchasing hogs and slaughtering them on behalf of the United States, to furnish pork for the army. On the 14th and 16th days, respectively, of the same month, Symonds made his first report on the subject, accompanied with a detailed statement. On the 21st General Eaton wrote to Symonds that his letters had been received and referred to the Secretary of War, with a recommendation that…
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