Colonial Navigation Company v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a general release did not bar a claim where there was no indication of an intent to release a given obligation that “no one would intend to give away or bargain away without any mention or discussion”
• “But an attempted assignment of a claim against the United States does not forfeit the claim. It leaves the claim where it was before the purported assignment.”
• definite, fixed, obligation held not released because release was clearly not intended

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).