Knox v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Said deceased entered into a contract with the defendants, a copy of which is annexed to the petition. The advertisement upon which the claimant’s testator was accepted as a bidder, and upon which said contract was founded, was as follows: EOUTE No. 10312. MAIL-MESSENGER SERVICE.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Said deceased entered into a contract with the defendants, a copy of which is annexed to the petition. The advertisement upon which the claimant’s testator was accepted as a bidder, and upon which said contract was founded, was as follows: EOUTE No. 10312. MAIL-MESSENGER SERVICE. WASHINGTON, D. C. [Service from July 1, 1885, to June 30, 1889.] Number of wagon trips required for the performance of SERVICE PROM RAILROAD STATIONS AND STEAMBOAT LANDINGS TO POST-OPPICE. Number of wagon trips…
1Opinion of the Court
Richaedson, Oh.. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claimant’s testator having been accepted as a contractor upon his bid under an advertisement of the Post-Office Department, entered into a written contract with the defendants for transporting the mails on Route No. 10312, “being the mail-messenger, transfer, and mail-station service in the city of Washington, D. C.”
By the advertisement upon which the contract was founded and therein referred to, the service on the route to be performed was divided into three parts — mail-messenger service, transfer service, mail-station service, as…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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