Jones v. United States

This is an action brought by two civil engineers to recover $24,026 09 damages growing out of a contract made with them by the Oommis sioner of Indian Affairs for the survey of the districts described in the treaty between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, (J une 22, ] 855,) and the treaty with the Creeks and Seminóles, (August 7, 1856.) The services required by the contract, it is conceded, were well performed, and the price stipulated has been fully paid. Certain “obstructions and hindrances on the part of the United States in the performance of their contract…