Steamship Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals from tbe Court of Claims. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
These are cross-appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company asserted in that court a claim for $531,666.66, and recovered a judgment for $41,666.66. The United Statés desire to reverse this latter judgment. The company seeks to recover here the full sum claimed below.
The suit grows out of a contract for carrying the mail from San Francisco to certain Asiatic ports. The facts, as found by the Court of Claims, and so far as is necessary to our decision, will be stated as we proceed.
The steamship company entered, on the 16th of October, 1866, into a…
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