Smithmeyer v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. This was an appeal from a judgment in the appellants’ favor in the Court of Claims for $48,000 damages, their demand sued for being $210,000. No appeal was taken by the government. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchfoed
This is a suit brought against the United States in the Court of Claims, by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz, architects, to recover the sum of $210,000, as 3 per cent on $7,000,000, the alleged cost of the building for the Library of Congress, when completed. <
The petition alleges that the claimants made and prepared the general plans and drawings for the Library building now in process of construction at Washington City; that from the year 1873 to the year 1886, they, at the request of the United States, were employed in making plans and drawings for a building for the Library; that in…
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