Lane v. United States

The object of this suit is to recover damages against the United States for an alleged breach of contract, made by the appellee, in December, 1864, with one Eisley, who was at the ■time the treasury agent at Norfolk, Virginia, for the purchase ■of the products of insurrectionary States. The case, as stated to the Court of Claims, is substantially this: that Eisley agreed to purchase, and Lane to sell and deliver within a reasonable time, at Norfolk, a large quantity of cotton, represented to be on the Chowan Eiver, in North Carolina, for which payment was to be made at the rate of…