Roettinger v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) William E. Merrill, of the United States Corps of Engineers, having his office at Cincinnati, Ohio, was resident engineer in charge of the improvement of the Ohio River in the years 1881,1882,1883, and still is there upon that duty. II.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) William E. Merrill, of the United States Corps of Engineers, having his office at Cincinnati, Ohio, was resident engineer in charge of the improvement of the Ohio River in the years 1881,1882,1883, and still is there upon that duty. II. Said engineer, to improve the navigation of the Ohio River, resolved to construct a dike at Puppy Creek Bar, some 743 miles below Pittsburg, on the Kentucky side, below liockport, Ind., and above Owensboro, Ky.; and for the…
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
This action grows out of a contract, made in June, 1881, with plaintiffs intestate by the engineer in charge of improvements upon the Ohio River, and which, it is urged, was afterwards so interpreted by the Government officer as to cause the contractor serious loss. The subject-matter of the contract was the construction of a dike at “ Puppy Creek Bar,” upon the Kentucky side of the Ohio River,between Owensboro, Ky., and Rockport, Ind.
The first ground of action may be thus stated: The dike was by the contract to be 3,000 feet long, and the substructure was to be entirely completed in the…
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