Caldwell's Case
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals from the Court of Claims. Caldwell sued the TJuited States to recover damages for tbe breach of a transportation contract, dated March 12th, 1866; the government then being at war with Western Indians.
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Appeals from the Court of Claims. Caldwell sued the TJuited States to recover damages for tbe breach of a transportation contract, dated March 12th, 1866; the government then being at war with Western Indians. The articles on which the points in dispute arose were thus: . “Article I. The said Caldwell shall receive at any time, in any of the months from April to September, inclusive, during the year 1866, from the officers or agents of the quartermaster’s department at Ports Leavenworth and Eiley, in Kansas; at Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory; Fort Sedgwick, Colorado Territory; Fort Laramie,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
In the view we have taken of the case, it is unnecessary to consider a question largely discussed in the court below, and in the briefs of counsel here, to wit, whether the contract, although not in terms containing a stipulation binding the United States to deliver to the claimant all the stores and supplies it desired to transport between the points mentioned, was to be construed as having that effect. Our decision of the case rests upon other grounds, which are reached upon the assumption that the claimant is right in his construction of the coutract, in that respect, but do not at all…
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