Moran Bros. v. United States

The plaintiff entered into a contract with the United States for the construction of a battleship designated “ Battleship No. 14, Nebraska.” A copy of the contract, which bore date as of March 7, 1901, is attached to the original petition. It refers, for authority for the construction of this and other battleships, to the appropriation acts of March 3, 1899, and June 7, 1900 (30 Stat. 1024, 1044, and 31 Stat. 684, 706), and both of these, by appropriate references, adopt the provisions of the act of August 3, 1886 (24 Stat. 215), which, in section 7, prescribes certain conditions relative to…