Bradley ex rel. Shepherd v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of fke case': The court found the following facts: I. On the 6th of June, A. D. 1873, the Postmaster-General and the claimant, Bradley, made and executed an indenture, of which the following is a copy: a This indenture, made this sixth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, by and between Andrew 0. Bradley, of Washington, D. 0., of the first part, and John A. J. Creswell, Postmaster-General, for and in…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of fke case': The court found the following facts: I. On the 6th of June, A. D. 1873, the Postmaster-General and the claimant, Bradley, made and executed an indenture, of which the following is a copy: a This indenture, made this sixth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, by and between Andrew 0. Bradley, of Washington, D. 0., of the first part, and John A. J. Creswell, Postmaster-General, for and in behalf of the United States of America, of the second part, witnesseth: That the said party of the first part, for and in…
1DissentNott, J.
In JRoberts’s Case (11 O. Cls. B., 98), the agreement was that, the claimants’ services should be rendered subject to the ratification of Congress, and that they should not be a matter of expense to the Post-Office Department. In this case the contract in like manner provided that the claimants’ lease should be subject to the ratification of Congress, and Avith like effect that no payment of rent should be made until Congress provided the means. In Boberts’s Case, Congress never in terms ratified the transaction, but the Supreme .Court held that the reference of the claim to this court by…
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