Case ID: us-ct-cl_14/html/0592-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Hablan", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(13 C. Cls. R., 112; 99 U. S. R., 286.)
    Isaac P. Tice’s administrators, appellants, v. The United States, appellees.
    
      On the elaimants’ Appeal.
    
    
      The Secretary of the Treasury adopts the Tiee meter, and authorizes him to furnish such meters as may he required for distilleries coming under the internal revenue laws. Subsequently regulations provide that the government will not he responsible for or on account of meters, and ultimately the use of the meter is discontinued. Tor all meters in process of construction when the last regulations are issued the manufacturen• {Tice) is paid. But when the meter is discontinued, he has a number in process of construction which were begun subsequent to notice that the government would not he responsible for any.
    
    The court below holds that the government is not responsible for any meters manufactured after notice of the regulations. Judgment for the defendants. The claimant appeals.
    The judgment of the court below is affirmed. The Supreme Court now holds that the government had the right to revoke the order adopting the meter at any time.
   Mr. Justice Hablan

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, March 17, 1879.