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STEAMSHIP CO. v. UNITED STATES

103 U.S. 721 (____)

STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor-General and Mr. Edwin B. Smith, Assistant Attorney-General, for the United States.

Mr. John F. Farnsworth, Mr. William E. Chandler, Mr. Philip Phillips, Mr. Roscoe Cockling, contra.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

These are cross-appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company asserted in that court a claim for $531,666.66, and recovered a judgment for $41,666.66. The United States desire to reverse this latter judgment. The company seeks to recover here the full sum claimed below.

The suit grows out of a contract for carrying the mail from San Francisco to certain Asiatic ports...

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