Abbott v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff brought an action against the United States to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract. He alleges that in 1889, in the city of Tacoma, Wash., the plaintiff, in answer to a published notice calling for proposals to furnish a post-office building at Tacoma, submitted to the postmaster general a proposition to erect a brick building on certain premises belonging to the plaintiff, and to furnish to the government for a post-office building a certain room therein for a term of five years at an annual rental of $1,200, and to furnish at his own…