McKee v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement Of the'ease: The following are the facts found by the court upon which the final argument in the case was heard : I; In the year 1864, Brigadier-General John M. Thayer was in command of the District of the Frontier, Department of Arkansas, with headquarters at Fort Smith, and Greene Durbin, captain and assistant quartermaster, was chief quartermaster of said district; which district was in the Indian Territory, south of Kansas and west of Arkansas.
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The Reporters’ statement Of the'ease: The following are the facts found by the court upon which the final argument in the case was heard : I; In the year 1864, Brigadier-General John M. Thayer was in command of the District of the Frontier, Department of Arkansas, with headquarters at Fort Smith, and Greene Durbin, captain and assistant quartermaster, was chief quartermaster of said district; which district was in the Indian Territory, south of Kansas and west of Arkansas. II. During the spring, summer, and fall of 1864, owing to the low stage of water in the Arkansas River, it was…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, J.,
delivered the following opinion :
This case contains four, causes of action, two of which are presented by the claimant and two by the defendants. The facts, briefly stated, are these :
In 1864 the claimant and a quartermaster entered into two contracts, the terms of which, however, are substantially identical. The claimant covenanted to furnish large quantities of hay at certain designated points in the Indian Territory; the defendants covenanted as follows: “It is expressly understood by the contracting parties that sufficient guards and escorts shall be furnished by the G-overnment…
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