Case: DAVIS TILLSON ET AL. v. THE UNITED STATES
Abbreviation: Tillson v. United States
Decision Date: 1889-01-14
Docket Number: 
Citation: 24 Ct. Cl. 526
Volume: 24
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: DAVIS TILLSON ET AL. v. THE UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Pages: 526–527

Head Matter:
DAVIS TILLSON ET AL. v. THE UNITED STATES.
[20 C. Cls. R., 213; 129 U. S. R., 101.]
On the claimant's Appeal.
The contractors agree to furnish, cut, dress, and deliver the granite for the St. Louis custom-house; the Government agrees to pay, in addition to the price of the stone, the cost of the labor, tools, and materials, and insurance on the same, and to assume the risk of damage to the cutting while being transported from the quarry to the building.
The court below decides:
(1) In a contract which binds the quarry-men to furnish building granite, and “the labor, tools, and materials necessary to cut, dress, and box at the quarry all the granite aforesaid," and the Government to pay for the “said labor, tools, and materials, and insurance on the same," the term “ insurance " can not be extended to the granite.
(2) Where a contract throws the burden of delivering cut stone upon the quarry-men, and the “risk of damage to cutting on said stone while being transported to site of said building’’ upon the purchaser, an accident, such as the stranding of a vessel, which merely increases the cost of transportation, must he borne exclusively by the former.
The decision of the court below is affirmed on the same grounds.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Geay
delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, January 14, 1889.