Van Studdiford v. Hazlett

This was an action on a contract, alleged to have been made by the defendant with plaintiff, to provide subsistence for eleven U. S. Army officers during the time they were to be conveyed on plaintiff’s steamboat up the Missouri river, from Omaha, Nebraska, to Fort Buford in Dacotah Territory. The defendant was a contractor under the United States Government, for the transportation of troops and supplies ; and the petition alleges that he made a contract with the plaintiff for subsisting said officers during the trip, at one dollar per day for each officer, and that the trip lasted for…