Legal Opinion
Parish v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 12, 1880No. 158PublishedCited by 39 opinions
■Appeal from the Court of Claims. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This action was commenced in the Court of Claims, under an act of Congress specially authorizing it, approved May 81,1872.
There is nothing in the act which furnishes any rule for its decision, though some of its provisions are emphasized in the argument of counsel. The action was brought on.the following contract: —
“Article of agreement made this fifth day of March, 1863, between Henry Johnson, medical store-keeper, United States army, and acting medical purveyor. Washington, D. C., on the one part, and Joseph W. Parish and William L. Huse, comprising the firm of Joseph W. Parish & Co., of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bulkley v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
3Cited by39 opinions
- United States v. BehanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Howard v. Stillwell & Bierce Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
- McGowan v. ParishSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- United States v. Ahtanum Irrigation DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
- Cincinnati Siemens-Lungren Gas Illuminating Co. v. Western Siemens-Lungren Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
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