United States Court of Claims December 15, 1866 (Gibbons v. United States)

Pecic, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This claimant states that on the 16th day of November, 1863, he entered into a contract with Captain Charles W. Thomas, assistant quartermaster of the United States army at Baltimore, by which it was agreed that Gibbons should deliver, for the use of the United States, one hundred thousand bushels of oats at Baltimore within thirty days, at the price