Wilson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: 1. On the 2d day of July, A. D. 1864, the claimant entered into a written contract with the defendants, through the Quartermaster-General, for the sale of 500 mules, to be delivered in the city of Washington, D. O.; 200 in five days from that date, and the balance, 300, within twenty-live days from said date, at $170 each, to be paid by the defendants therefor;…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: 1. On the 2d day of July, A. D. 1864, the claimant entered into a written contract with the defendants, through the Quartermaster-General, for the sale of 500 mules, to be delivered in the city of Washington, D. O.; 200 in five days from that date, and the balance, 300, within twenty-live days from said date, at $170 each, to be paid by the defendants therefor; which contract was made by letter from the claimant to the Quartermaster-General, and the answer thereto signed by “ D.…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The case, briefly stated, is this: In 1864, a contractor agreed with the Quartermaster-General, to deliver a large number of mules in the city of Washington. He endeavored to perform according to the very letter of his contract; but when the mules, which he had brought from Kentucky, reached the confines of the city, the capture of Washington by the forces of Early was imminent. The agents of the contractor sought to enter the city and deliver the mules, but were stopped at the picket-line and turned back, under an order of the military governor of. Washington forbidding all persons to…
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