Case ID: us-ct-cl_15/html/0618-01.html
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Author: {"author": "The Chiee Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TILLSON’S CASE.
    (11 C. Cls. R., 758; 100 U. S. R., 43.)
    Robert Tillson et al., appellants, v. The United States, appellees.
    
      On the claimants’ Appeal.
    
    
      The claimants hold contracts for the sale of horse equipments, ¡f-c., at Saint Louis dwrimg the toar. There is gnat delay in auditing and, paying their accounts. Congress pass an act for their relief, directing the court heloto to ascertain the amount equitably due. They bring their action claiming interest for the periods when payments to'them were, delayed,.
    
    The court below decides that the claimants cannot recover remote damages, 8 nor interest, the accounts having been audited in the regular routine of the business of the Treasury. Judgment for the dedendants. The claimants appieal.
    The judgment of the court below is affirmed, upon the ground that interest, not having heenstipulatedfor in the contract, cannot herecovered against the express provision of the Revised Statutes (§ 1091), and that the terms of the private act do not repeal the statute.
   The Chiee Justice

delivered, the opinion of the Supreme Court, October, 1879.