Case: CHARLES F. HUNT, EXECUTOR OF WILLIAM WEIGHEL, DECEASED, v. THE UNITED STATES
Abbreviation: Hunt v. United States
Decision Date: 1921-10
Docket Number: 
Citation: 57 Ct. Cl. 591
Volume: 57
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: CHARLES F. HUNT, EXECUTOR OF WILLIAM WEIGHEL, DECEASED, v. THE UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Pages: 591–592

Head Matter:
CHARLES F. HUNT, EXECUTOR OF WILLIAM WEIGHEL, DECEASED, v. THE UNITED STATES.
[55 C. Cls. 77; 257 U. S. 125.]
Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was reversed, and the Supreme Court decided:
United States v. Utah, Nevada & California Stage Co,., 199 U. S. 414, follows to the effect that a general stipulation in a mail-carriage contract obliging the contractor to perform new, additional, or changed service without additional compensation, when ordered by the Postmaster General, does not authorize the exaction without pay of a heavy and expensive service not within the contemplation of the parties.
Where a contract for mail carriage was sublet, without filing a copy of the subcontract under c. 116, 22 Stat. 54, or obtaining the written consent of the Postmaster General, required by sec. 2, c. 107, 20 Stat. 62, and the Government, though accepting the service performed, by the subcontractor, neither had nor recognized any contractual relation except with his principal, treating the former as the agent of the latter, an action in the Court of Claims for extra service exacted by the Government over his protest, but performed by the subcontractor, was properly brought by and in the name of the contractor.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Clarke
delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court November 7, 1921.