Meigs v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The decision of this court in the former action brought by General Meigs will be found in 19 0. 01s.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The decision of this court in the former action brought by General Meigs will be found in 19 0. 01s. R., 497. The following are the facts found by the court in this action: I. Oil the 8tb of September, 1882, the Secretary of the Interior issued and delivered to the claimant the following commission: “ The United States of America to all t<> whom these presents shall come, greeting: “ Know ,ye that, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability, and discretion of Brig, and Bvt. Maj. Gen. Montgomery 0. Meigs, U. S. A. (retired), I do…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claimant brings this action to recover $10 a day for his services from March 1, 1884, to January 31, 1885, as supervising engineer and architect for the erection of a building for the Pension Bureau of the Interior Department.
A former suit for like services for the four months immediately preceding the time covered by this action was brought in this court by the present claimant against the present defendants, in which the defendants appeared, issue was joined, a trial had, and every question of law and fact on the merits controverted,…
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