THE case is stated in the opinion.
MR. JUSTICE NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from the Court of Claims.
The petition of Mowry sets forth that railroad cars were needed on the Pacific Railroad, in Missouri, for the transportation of men and supplies in the military department of the West, then in command of General Fremont, and that, on the 22d September, 1861, he made a contract with Chief Quartermaster McKinstry, at the...
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