Graham v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Action at law by the United States against Frank F. Graham and the Guaranty & Surety Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Action at law by the United States against Frank F. Graham and the Guaranty & Surety Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. In the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved March 3, 1903, c. 1007, 32 Stat. 1102, Congress enacted: “To enable the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to commence the erection of a suitable fireproof building with granite fronts, for the use of the National Museum, to be erected on the north side of the Mall, between Ninth and Twelfth-streets,…
1Opinion of the CourtDayton, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Graham filed some 14 and the surety company IS pleas in defense of this suit. The first 14 filed by the surety company are substantially the same as those filed by Graham, and both sets could have been well reduced to 4, one the' general issue, the other 3 setting forth the charges: First, that the contract was not annuled lawfully by Green ; second, that Green had not performed the conditions of the contract required of him in the furnishing of the granite properly to Graham, whereby and by reason whereof he had broken the contract, and Graham was entitled…
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