Shipman v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The following are the facts found by the court: I. Under the provisions of the Act of June 20, 1878, chap. 365 (20 Stat. L., 242), the claimant entered into a contract with the defendants, after advertisement and proposals, of which contract the following is a copy: This agreement made and entered into this twenty-ninth day of October, 1878, hy and between Capt.
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The following are the facts found by the court: I. Under the provisions of the Act of June 20, 1878, chap. 365 (20 Stat. L., 242), the claimant entered into a contract with the defendants, after advertisement and proposals, of which contract the following is a copy: This agreement made and entered into this twenty-ninth day of October, 1878, hy and between Capt. A. F. Kockwell, Assistant Quartermaster, United States Army, at Washington, District of Columbia, for and on behalf of the United States of America, party of the first part, and John J. Shipman of Lewensville, Fairfax County, in the…
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2Opinion of the Court · RichardsonRichardson, J.
The claim set up in this case is for work done and materials furnished for constructing a road to . a national cemetery in Mississippi under the direction of the Secretary of War.
The only authority which the Secretary had for undertaking the work was a clause in the Act of June 20, 1878, chap. 365 (20 Stat. L., 242), which appropriated the sum of seven thousand dollars “for the purpose of constructing a macadamized road from the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the national cemetery near that city, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, or so much of the above…
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