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SMOOT'S CASE

82 U.S. 36 (1872)

15 Wall. 36

SMOOT'S CASE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. B.F. Butler, for the claimant, Smoot:

Mr. G.H. Williams, Attorney-General, Mr. C.H. Hill, and Mr. W. McMichael, Assistant Attorneys-General, for the United States.

Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

Mr. Smoot claims of the United States a large sum of money for the profits which he might have made out of two contracts with Quartermaster Eakin, for delivering cavalry horses for the use of the army — two thousand five hundred at St. Louis and two thousand at Chicago. It is neither alleged nor proved that he ever tendered...

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