Black v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
On the claimants’ Appeal. The Reporters? statement of the case: The following are the findings of the court below : First. On the 19th of March, A. D. 1868, the claimants and ’General William Myers, chief quartermaster for the Department of the Platte, entered into a written contract for the transportation of military stores and supplies within contract-route No. 1, as therein fully set forth, which contract is annexed to and forms part of the petition. Seeond.
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On the claimants’ Appeal. The Reporters? statement of the case: The following are the findings of the court below : First. On the 19th of March, A. D. 1868, the claimants and ’General William Myers, chief quartermaster for the Department of the Platte, entered into a written contract for the transportation of military stores and supplies within contract-route No. 1, as therein fully set forth, which contract is annexed to and forms part of the petition. Seeond. At Omaha, on the 30th of April, the 1st and the 2d of May, respectively, A. D. 1888, said Myers made a formal requisition upon the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief-Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
The material provisions of the contract upon which this suit is brought are as follows :
“Article I. That the said Black, Kitchen & Martin shall receive at any time, in any of the months from April 1, 1868, to March 31, 1869, inclusive, from the officers or agents of the Quartermaster’s Department at Fort D. A. Bussell, in the Territory of Dakota, or such point as may be determined upon during the year, on the Omaha branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, west of Fort D. A. Bussell, or at Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory, all such military…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Caldwell's CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1874