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UNITED STATES v. ELLICOTT

No. 85.

223 U.S. 524 (1912)

32 S.Ct. 334

56 L.Ed. 535

UNITED STATES v. ELLICOTT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 26, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Barton Corneau was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. James Piper, with whom Mr. Francis K. Carey and Mr. A.A. Hoehling, Jr., were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Whether or not the United States is responsible in damages because of a refusal to permit the carrying out of an alleged contract made with a co-partnership, the Ellicott Machine Company, who are appellees, for the construction for the Isthmian Canal Company of six steel dump barges is the issue here required to be decided. From a judgment for ten thousand dollars...

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