Piatt's Administrator v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: J. H. Piatt, on the 26th of January, 1814 — during our second war with Great Britain — by a written contract with the then Secretary of War, General Armstrong, became a contractor of supplies for the Northwestern Army for one year, to begin on the lst day of June, 1814, and end on the 31st day of May, 1815, at an average rate of twenty cents the ration; and as the usage then was to make advances in money to contractors,…
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Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: J. H. Piatt, on the 26th of January, 1814 — during our second war with Great Britain — by a written contract with the then Secretary of War, General Armstrong, became a contractor of supplies for the Northwestern Army for one year, to begin on the lst day of June, 1814, and end on the 31st day of May, 1815, at an average rate of twenty cents the ration; and as the usage then was to make advances in money to contractors, he retained in his hands, as an advance frotn the department, the balance of the commissariat fund; which at the close of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Attempt is made, chiefly on two grounds, to vindicate the conclusion of the Court of Claims, that the cause of action *506is barred by the allowance reported by the accounting officers of the treasury. The grounds are:
(1.) That the auditor passed to the credit of the deceased claimant the amount claimed by the United States as due from him as commissary of subsistence, and that he, the claimant, accepted the settlement without protest.
(2.) That Congress intended by the act directing the adjustment of his accounts that the settlement should be final and conclusive; that the act was in the nature…
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