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BOWERS HYDRAULIC DREDGING CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 9.

211 U.S. 176 (1908)

29 S.Ct. 77

53 L.Ed. 136

BOWERS HYDRAULIC DREDGING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 30, 1908.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. L.T. Michener, with whom Mr. W.W. Dudley and Mr. P.G. Michener were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General John Q. Thompson, with whom Mr. Philip M. Ashford, Special Attorney, was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, the dredge company, sued to recover $28,321.76. The relief sought was based on the averment that under a contract for dredging a channel, in the Christiana River and in or about the harbor of Wilmington, Delaware, made in 1899, and a supplementary contract made in June, 1901, the dredge company had excavated 260,430 cubic yards

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