Power v. United States
United States Court of Claims
This is an action for damages for non-performance in full by the defendants’ officer of a contract alleged to have been made with the Commissioner of Indian'Affairs.
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This is an action for damages for non-performance in full by the defendants’ officer of a contract alleged to have been made with the Commissioner of Indian'Affairs. All the facts are set out in full in the following findings by the court, and are succinctly stated in the opinion thereon. . I. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on the respective dates thereof, addressed the following communications to the claimant: • Department of the Interior, Office oe Indian Affairs, Washington, October 26, 1877. T. C. Power, Care Samuel Shethar, 548 Broadway, New York: Your proposal to furnish, dried,…
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2Opinion of the Court · DavisDavis, J.
The court has had great difficulty in reaching the facts in this small record; and had it not been that the Board of Indian Commissioners and the Secretary of the Interior, who were in a position to have knowledge of the transactions out of which the claim grew, were of opinion that there were equities in it, we should have felt disposed to dismiss the petition for want of proof of the claim.
In the latter part of October, 1877, the claimant and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs signed a contract in the usual form for the transportation of all such goods and supplies of ¡the Indian…
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