Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The following are tbe facts as found by the court: I. On the 16th day of October, 1866, a contract was entered into between the claimant and the defendants, of which the following is a copy: This article of contract, made the sixteenth day of October, infthe year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, between the United States of America (acting in this behalf by their Postmaster-General) and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, with Howard Potter and Francis…
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The following are tbe facts as found by the court: I. On the 16th day of October, 1866, a contract was entered into between the claimant and the defendants, of which the following is a copy: This article of contract, made the sixteenth day of October, infthe year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, between the United States of America (acting in this behalf by their Postmaster-General) and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, with Howard Potter and Francis Skiddy, of New York City, as sureties, witnesseth: That whereas the said Pacific Mail Steamship Company have been…
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2Opinion of the Court · DavisDavis, J.
The claimants contracted with the defendants to transport mails monthly, in round trips, for ten years, between San Francisco, the Sandwich Islands, China, and Japan, which contract was soon modified by releasing them from the obligation to touch at the Sandwich Islands in the round trip. They sue in this action to recover for two round trips in which the transportation was begun before the expiration of ten years from the day when the service under the contract commenced, but was not finished until after the expiration of ten years from that day. The question which we are to decide…
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