Sweeny v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal .from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: One Sweeny, owner of a steamer, chartered her. at Louisville, March 3d, 1863, to the United States (the assistant quartermaster of the military department where she was, signing the charter-party in behalf, of the government), at $175 per day; no term of service being specified. On the 10th the per diem was increased, in writing, to $200, and was so paid till the 20th March.
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Appeal .from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: One Sweeny, owner of a steamer, chartered her. at Louisville, March 3d, 1863, to the United States (the assistant quartermaster of the military department where she was, signing the charter-party in behalf, of the government), at $175 per day; no term of service being specified. On the 10th the per diem was increased, in writing, to $200, and was so paid till the 20th March. In that month she was ordered and went into another military department; and came under the control of an assistant quartermaster at St. Louis, Captain Parsons, under…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Claims against the United States which-are disputed by the officers authorized to adjust such accounts may be compromised, and if the claimant voluntarily enters into such a compromise and accepts a smaller sum than the claim and executes a discharge in full for the whole claim he is bound by the adjustment and cannot sue for what he voluntarily relinquished.
Sweeny was the owner of the steamer Ben. Franklin, and on the 3d of March, 1863, he chartered the steamer to the United States for $170 per day, the charter-party being signed by the owner of the steamer and an assistant, quartermaster,…
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