Lord & Hewlett v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The appellants, doing business as architects under the name of Lord & Hewlett, brought this action to recover from the United States the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars as due them on account of certain transactions relating to a public building which the United States proposed to have constructed and used by the Department of Agriculture.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The appellants, doing business as architects under the name of Lord & Hewlett, brought this action to recover from the United States the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars as due them on account of certain transactions relating to a public building which the United States proposed to have constructed and used by the Department of Agriculture. The Court of Claims adjudged, upon the facts found, that the plaintiffs had no cause of action against the United States and dismissed the claimants’ petition. The material facts are as will be now stated: By the act of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This statement of the controlling facts is quite sufficient to show that the judgment below was right. We perceive no ground whatever for a judgment against the United States. Nothing done under the act of March 2d, 1901 created any obligation upon the part of the Secretary of Agriculture,. as representing the United States, to proceed under the plans made by the appellants for the.construction of the building *348i at erred to in that act. The “Programme” of competition. ■ devised, under that act, by the Architect of the Treasury, under the direction of the Secretary, contemplated the payment of…
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