Case ID: us-ct-cl_41/html/0501-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Holmes", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GREENLIEF W. SIMPSON v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [Not reported in C. Cls. R.;
    199 U. S. R., 397.]
    
      On the claimant's Appeal.
    
    Tlie suit is based on a contract which provides that the claimant should “ deliver to the commissaries of the United States troops stationed at such posts and camps as are situated in the interior of the island of Cuba, at such prescribed hours on such days as under the direction of their commanding officers they shall designate, such quantities of fresh beef, fit for immediate use, as from time to time they may require.” The claim is made for refusal to take beef at Los Quemados, Havana, and Matanzas.
    The court below found the facts and dismissed the petition without an opinion.
    The Supreme Court affirms the decision of the court below, on the ground that the interpretation of the word interim and of the contract by the Commissary-General was correct.
   Mr. Justice Holmes

delivered the opinion of the Supréme Court, November 27, 1905.