Simpson v. United States

Citations

• 199 U.S. 397
• 26 S. Ct. 54
• 50 L. Ed. 245
• 1905 U.S. LEXIS 1016

Syllabus

<p>In construing a contract with the Commissary General for supplies to posts in Cuba described at one place as “remote from the seácoast” and at another as “in the interior of thaisland;” held, that the two phrases meant the same thing and interpreted the word “interior,” and that the contemporaneous construction of the Commissary General 'ip refusing to take supplies for a post about eight miles from Havana- and' the camping ground.ior that city, that the contract applied only to posts remóte from the seacoast, was correct; Also helfj, that the written contract could ■ not be extended to places not specified therein, by an indefinite oral agreement.</p>