United States v. Carr
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. . Carr filed his petition against the United States in the Court of Claims on the 17th of February, 1885, averring that the Postmaster General entered into a contract in writing with him in April, 1878, for carrying the mails of the United States from Salinas City, in the State of California, to Gabilan, in that State, and back from Gabilan to Salinas City for the annual sum of $796, a copy of which contract he attached to his petition; that…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. . Carr filed his petition against the United States in the Court of Claims on the 17th of February, 1885, averring that the Postmaster General entered into a contract in writing with him in April, 1878, for carrying the mails of the United States from Salinas City, in the State of California, to Gabilan, in that State, and back from Gabilan to Salinas City for the annual sum of $796, a copy of which contract he attached to his petition; that at the time of the' letting of the contract, and for upwards of four years prior thereto, the mails were carried upon…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
The amount sued for was $782.17, of which the sum of $35.92, the aggregate of some small deductions upon other contracts, • was disallowed by the Court of Claims, and that result accepted by the claimant.
It' appears from the third finding that the Postmaster General deducted from the claimant’s compensation, under contract No. 46¡118, $746.25, “which deduction equals one-quarter of the total compensation fixed by the contract for Avhole service under it during the period covered by the alleged delinquency; ” being the three years and three-quarters from July 1, 1878, to March 31, 1882. It…
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