Carpenter v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio
At Law. Act Cong. March 3, 1887, c. 859, § 1, provides that the court of ■claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims founded upon “any contract, express or implied, with the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court- of law, equity, or admiralty, if the United States were suable.”
1Opinion of the CourtSage, J.
After the ruling in this case, (reported 42 Fed. Rep. 264,) upon the suggestion of counsel for the plaintiff that the facts were imperfectly stated in the petition, the demurrer to which had been sustained, and that properly stated they would sustain a claim for indemnification by the government, I permitted an amended petition to be filed, to which the government answered, joining issue on the points hereinafter referred to. The cause is now before the court upon the pleadings and testimony submitted by the parties.
The first point made for the plaintiff is that the hiring of the flat by Mr.…
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