Legal Opinion
Day v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 26, 1917No. 43PublishedCited by 77 opinions
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a suit by a contractor to recover for work and material furnished to build a bulkhead and. temporary dams in order to protect a canal and locks at the cascades of the Columbia River against an extraordinary flood. The facts of the case are-simple. An Act of Congress of July 13, 1892, c. 158, 27 Stat. 109, appropriated $326,250 for continuing an improvement at the cascades that had been under way for a number of years, and authorized a contract for completing it, to be paid for as subsequent further appropriations, not exceeding $1,419,250, should be made. On December 27, 1892, the…
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- Crimmins & Peirce Co. v. Kidder Peabody Acceptance Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
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