Baird v. United States

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

These are cross appeals from the judgment of tbe Court of. Claims.

Baird, as tbe surviving member of tbe firm of M. W. Baldwim & Co., was tbe petitioner; That court gave him a judgment for • $23,750. He appealed, and contends that be is entitled to recover a much larger sum. Tbe United States appealed, and insist that be is entitled to nothing. Tbe finding of facts presents tbe case as it is before us for examination.

On tbe 17th of March, 1864, tbe United States, by their proper officer, ordered Baldwin & Co. to make for them fifteen locomotive-engines “ at…