Hawkins v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters7 statement of the cáse: The court found the following facts: 1. In May, 1874, the claimant began to deliver rubble-stone, and had delivered fifty cubic yards of such as came within the description and standard of the smaller-sized stone required by the contract, when Mr. D. B. Thomas, the assistant superintendent of the work, in immediate charge thereof for the defendants, rejected these stone, refused to receive any of the same description, and informed the…
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The Reporters7 statement of the cáse: The court found the following facts: 1. In May, 1874, the claimant began to deliver rubble-stone, and had delivered fifty cubic yards of such as came within the description and standard of the smaller-sized stone required by the contract, when Mr. D. B. Thomas, the assistant superintendent of the work, in immediate charge thereof for the defendants, rejected these stone, refused to receive any of the same description, and informed the claimant of the kind which must be furnished to make such a wall as he wanted, and which was in fact a ranged-rubble or…
1Opinion of the CourtRiohakdson, J.
On the 15th day of May, 1874, the claimant entered into a written contract with the defendants to furnish and deliver 1,000 cubic yards, more or less, of rabble-stone for building a courthouse and post-office at Raleigh, F. 0., at $5 per yard net measurement in the building. In pursuance of his agreements he delivered 50 cubic yards of such stone at the site for the building, and he had quarried, ready for delivery, 250 cubic yards more, when the assistant superintendent, who had the immediate charge of the work for the defendants, rejected the stone delivered and refused to receive any more…
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