MacArthur Brothers Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. ' Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims dismissing appellant’s second amended petition upon demurrer.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
delivered. the opinion of the court.
This is an action to recover damages for a breach of contract growing out of an alleged misrepresentation.
The appellant essayed recovery upon a petition to which a demurrer was sustained; it then filed an amended petition which was subjected to a like disposition, and then a second amended petition. Demurrer by the Government being sustained to that, appellant declined to amend again, and judgment was entered dismissing the petition. From the ruling this appeal is prosecuted.
The last petition is, as the others were, a very volumiious paper. It is enough to…
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