O'Hare v. District of Columbia
United States Court of Claims
The following are the facts found by the court: 1. The claimant and the defendant, through the Board of Public Works, entered into a contract as follows: CONTRACT No, 835. This contract, made and concluded this twelfth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, by and between Henry D. Cooke, Alexander R. Shepherd, James A. Magruder, Adolf Cluss, and Henry A. Willard, constituting and composing the Board of Public Works of the District of…
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The following are the facts found by the court: 1. The claimant and the defendant, through the Board of Public Works, entered into a contract as follows: CONTRACT No, 835. This contract, made and concluded this twelfth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, by and between Henry D. Cooke, Alexander R. Shepherd, James A. Magruder, Adolf Cluss, and Henry A. Willard, constituting and composing the Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia, of the first part, and Owen O’Hare, of Washington, D. C., of the second part, witnesseth: First. That the said party…
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · ScofieldScofield, J.
In this case the parties are wide apart. The demands of the claimant, according to his amended brief, amount to $15,017.78. The defendant, while contesting them all except $4,002.02, sets up counter-claims amounting to $13,049.30. In disposing of the disputed items we are required to revise and rejudge the *677decisions, settlements, and allowances made by the Board of Public Works, or by the Commissioners, engineers,, and auditor of the District, or by the Board of Audit. The accounts are numerous and stale,, and the evidence scanty, confused, and contradictory.
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3Cases cited2 opinions
- Neitzey v. District of ColumbiaUnited States Court of Claims · 1881
- Neuchatel Paving Co. v. District of ColumbiaUnited States Court of Claims · 1881
4Cited by2 opinions
- Barnes v. District of ColumbiaUnited States Court of Claims · 1887
- Richtman v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1912