Hazlett v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: So much of the contract as is necessary to an understanding of the case will be found in the opinion.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: So much of the contract as is necessary to an understanding of the case will be found in the opinion. The following are tlie facts as found by the court: I. General D. H. Rucker, assistant quartermaster-general United States Army and chief quartermaster Military Division of the Missoiu'i, by order of the Quartermaster-Gen eral of the United States Army, advertised tliatproposals would be received at bis office, Chicago, 111., till 12 m., Tuesday, February 1,1870, for the transportation of government troops, military, government, and Indian supplies…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This action was brought in April, 1876; a number of depositions have been taken by the claimant; the executive departments have been subjected to the expense and trouble of furnishing a cumbrous mass of documents; and the case comes to a hearing upon a bulky printed record of more than 200 pages. Yet, it is manifest that there is no issue of fact between the parties; that the whole controversy is to be found in one or *457two questions of law, and that the case might have been determined as well upon demurrer.
The court takes this opportunity to express its regret at the needless expense and…
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