P. H. McLaughlin & Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of tbe case: The following- are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. That Patrick H. McLaughlin, of Washington, I). C., Augustus Davis, jr., of Ballston, Va., and John G. Craig, of Concord, N. H., are citizens of the United States; have at all times yielded true allegiance to the United States; are copartners doing a contracting and building business under the firm name and style of P. H. McLaughlin & Co., in the District of Columbia; and,…
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The Reporter’s statement of tbe case: The following- are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. That Patrick H. McLaughlin, of Washington, I). C., Augustus Davis, jr., of Ballston, Va., and John G. Craig, of Concord, N. H., are citizens of the United States; have at all times yielded true allegiance to the United States; are copartners doing a contracting and building business under the firm name and style of P. H. McLaughlin & Co., in the District of Columbia; and, as such copartners, are sole owners of the claims herein sued on, never having sold or assigned the same to anji-…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
Authority was conferred by an act approved March 3,1887, upon the Secretary of the Navy to have constructed a new Naval Observatory on Georgetown Heights, in the city of Washington, D. C.
Pursuant to that authority, the Secretary invited proposals for tbe construction and erection, by contract, of nine buildings. The specifications, with plans (except certain details of work and materials relating to the construction of floors, piers for instruments, and equatorial domes), were to be had on application, and proposals were to be made in accordance with forms to be furnished. It was required…
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