Salomon v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are tlie material facts found by the court below: I. On the 28th July, 1864, the defendants, through their assistant quartermaster, entered into the written contract with claimant which is described in, and annexed to, the petition.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are tlie material facts found by the court below: I. On the 28th July, 1864, the defendants, through their assistant quartermaster, entered into the written contract with claimant which is described in, and annexed to, the petition. On the 1st May, 1865, there had been delivered on account of the said contract only about nine thousand bushels of corn, for all of which the defendants have paid, and as to which there is no dispute. In September, 1865, the claimant applied to Captain Turnley, the chief quartermaster of the Department of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The. appellant entered into a written contract on the 28th of July, 1864, with the Quartermaster’s Department, to deliver at Fort Fillmore 12,000 bushels of corn, at such times and in such quantities, of not less than 1,000 bushels per month, as the assistant quartermaster should direct: 9,000 bushels before the 1st day of January, and the whole amount by the 1st day of May, 1865.
The 9,000 bushels were delivered and paid for before the 1st day of May, and about this there is no dispute.
Some negotiations took place afterward between appellant and the quartermaster of that military department…
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