Brown v. District of Columbia
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. In December, 1872, and afterwards, there existed a co-partnership called the Ballard Pavement Company, which was composed of William W. Ballard, Edward L. Marsh, and Tal-madge E. Brown, the claimant; and said company had a business office in the city of New York. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. In December, 1872, and afterwards, there existed a co-partnership called the Ballard Pavement Company, which was composed of William W. Ballard, Edward L. Marsh, and Tal-madge E. Brown, the claimant; and said company had a business office in the city of New York. II. In the early part of that month, the said William W. Ballard and the claimant were in the city of Washington; and they had verbal negotiations with Alexander R. Shepherd, then and afterwards a member and vice-president of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
A rule of this court requires the petition in any suit brought here to set forth “a plain, concise statement of the facts and circumstances, free from argumentative and impertinent matter.”
The petition in this case contains four counts; the first of which is complete itself; but the other three, the claimant says, are only different forms of statement of the same claim, and under either or all of them he only claims the one sum named in them.
The first count proceeds upon a written contract, alleged to have been entered into, December 10,1872,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Gould v. Evansville & Crawfordsville R. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Neuchatel Paving Co. v. District of ColumbiaUnited States Court of Claims · 1881