MERRILL-RUCKGABER CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 281.

241 U.S. 387 (1916)

MERRILL-RUCKGABER COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 5, 1916.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John S. Flannery, with whom Mr. Frederic D. McKenney was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Huston Thompson for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

The case is in narrow compass. It involves for its solution the construction of a contract, and the rules to guide such construction we need not rehearse. To its words we at first resort, but not to one or a few of them but to all of them as associated, and as well to the conditions to which they were addressed and intended to provide...

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