Bray v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’1 statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The Evansville Contract Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Indiana and is a resident of that State.
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The Reporters’1 statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The Evansville Contract Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Indiana and is a resident of that State. After the making of the contract hereinafter mentioned said company was thrown into bankruptcy and the abo re-named Madison J. Bray is now its sole trustee in bankruptcy; he has duly qualified and is now acting and suing in that capacity and has been substituted as petitioner in this case as such trustee. The said Bray as such trustee is the sole owner of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaenet, J.
This suit grows out of a contract for work upon Dam No. 6, in the Ohio River, about 30 miles below Pittsburgh. This contract was entered into on May 10, 1899, between Maj. William H. Bixby, of the Engineer Department, on behalf of the United States, and the Evansville Contract Company, now an insolvent corporation and whose affairs are now being administered and wound up by the claimant, Madison J. Bray, as trustee. The contract provided that work should be begun “ as soon as practicable,” the foundations to be *136completed “ within nine months thereafter and the superstructure within a further…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Driscoll v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1899
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