RIPLEY v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 498, 499.

222 U.S. 144 (1911)

RIPLEY v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. RIPLEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wm. H. Robeson, with whom Mr. Benj. Carter and Mr. F. Carter Pope were on the brief, for appellant in No. 498, and appellee in No. 499.

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


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

Ripley recovered the sum of alleged losses occasioned by the delay consequent on the refusal of the inspector in charge of certain jetty work, being performed under contract with the United States in Aransas Pass, Texas, to permit the placing of certain crest blocks on the foundation intended to receive them. Both the United States and Ripley appealed. At the last term, when the case was before us, it became...

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