Austin W. Lord and J. Monroe Hewlett, Doing Business Under the Firm Name and Style of Lord & Hewlett, Appts. v. United States

217 U.S. 340

30 S.Ct. 568

54 L.Ed. 790

AUSTIN W. LORD and J. Monroe Hewlett, Doing Business under the Firm Name and Style of Lord & Hewlett, Appts.,

v.

UNITED STATES.

No. 162.

Argued April 20, 1910.

Decided May 2, 1910.

The appellants, doing business as architects under the name of Lord & Hewlett, brought this action to recover from the United States the sum of $75,000 as due them on account of certain transactions relating to a public building which the United States proposed to have constructed and used by the Department of Agriculture.

The court of claims adjudged, upon the facts found, that the…