The Floyd Acceptances
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals from the Court of Claims. The facts, as found by that court, were thus: Bussell, Majors & Waddell had contracts-for supplies and transportation, to be furnished to the army in "Utah. By tírese contracts, they were to be paid either by the quartermaster at St. Louis,, or by his drafts on the assistant treasurer- of the United States in New York.
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Appeals from the Court of Claims. The facts, as found by that court, were thus: Bussell, Majors & Waddell had contracts-for supplies and transportation, to be furnished to the army in "Utah. By tírese contracts, they were to be paid either by the quartermaster at St. Louis,, or by his drafts on the assistant treasurer- of the United States in New York. In all the contracts,. except one, these payments were to be made 'on the final delivery of the supplies in Utah; but in one contract there was an agreement that partial payments should be made when the trains were, started. In all gases, such…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
delivered the opiiiion of the court, .
■. The cases before us are demands against the United States, founded upon instruments claimed to be bills of exchange, drawn-by, Russell,-Majors & Waddell, on John B. Floyd, Secretary of' War, and accepted by him. in' that capacity-; purchased .by plaintiffs before maturity, for awaluable consideration, and, as they allege, -without notipe.of any defence tdithem.
■■ Mr. Pierce, in his petition, relies, on the'facts that the. signature of John- B. Floyd, to these acceptances, is genuine, ahd that he was 'at the time of the. acceptance Secretary of War, "ás…
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